Long runs Quotes

Total war is the most humane in the long run.

— C. S. Lewis

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

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

It is in the long run that the corporation lives.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Nick Murray

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

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

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

— Trent Franks

I don't think telling the truth ever gets anyone in trouble in the long run. Maybe the day after, but not in…

— Steve Spurrier

I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

— Aziz Ansari

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

— Jane Fonda

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind,…

— Vince Lombardi

If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— Tim Ferriss

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Alexander MacLaren

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

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

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

— Mary Cholmondeley

Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run…

— Wendell Berry

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

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

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

— Dick Morris

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 idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is…

— Toni Morrison

I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. The optimist has won half the battle, the…

— Thomas Buckner

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

— Henry David Thoreau

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Coolio

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

— Joel Courtney

One part of my routine is going on long runs as often as possible.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

— Robert Kiyosaki

The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.

— John Wooden

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

— Helen Keller