Long Run Quotes
539 quotes by 422 authors
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless…
— John Maynard Keynes
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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.
— Thorstein Veblen
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If a team cannot perform with excellence at a moment's notice, they probably will fail in the long run.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
— Brendan Gill
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their…
— Bertrand Russell
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
— Edward Hoagland
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Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run…
— Dalai Lama
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Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.
— Rolf Potts
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Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
— Thomas Huxley
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In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time…
— Theobald Smith
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.
— Jack Welch
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think…
— Dalai Lama
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I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Long Run Quotes
422 authors contributed a total of 539 Long Run Quotes, led by these top contributors: