Long runs Quotes

An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.

— Carlo Rovelli

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

— C. S. Lewis

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

— Alan Perlis

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

— H. L. Mencken

Over the long run, many of Perry's stances boil down to following the money.

— Gail Collins

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing…

— Nick Murray

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…

— Thorstein Veblen

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

— Joseph Heller

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.

— Aldous Huxley

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might…

— Booker T. Washington

it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

— Phyllis Bottome

The cost of a thing is what I call life which has to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long…

— F. H. Bradley

Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become…

— Carl Sagan

At least this is the way I see it. I am a physicist. I also consider myself a Christian. As I try…

— Charles Hard Townes

In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be…

— Alexander MacLaren

When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend…

— Harry West

I think the best way is to keep stressing, that, as we build out a new energy system, one of the best…

— Bill McKibben

You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of…

— Will Barnet

In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and…

— Benjamin Graham

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small,…

— Tim Ferriss

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread…

— Bob Dylan

Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move…

— Dick Morris

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy…

— Joseph Stiglitz

If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then…

— Adolf Hitler

In the long run it makes little difference how cleverly others are deceived; if we are not doing what we are best…

— Dorothea Brande

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any…

— Carl Jung

It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead…

— Mary Cholmondeley

Formerly pictures used to move towards completion in progressive stages. Each day would bring something new. A picture was a sum of…

— Pablo Picasso

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

— Peter Senge

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

— May Sarton

In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

— Thomas Sowell

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

— Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

— Henry David Thoreau

I really do want to act, I love acting, and I want to do it in the long run.

— Joel Courtney

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

— Coolio