Plodding Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Plodding wins the race. — Aesop
My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a… — Jo Brand
Attitude lies somewhere between emotion and logic. It's that curious mix of optimism and determination that enables you to maintain a positive outlook and to… — Pat Summitt
"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All… — Og Mandino
I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is… — Douglas Wilson
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics.… — Gertrude Atherton
We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff… — Jack White
I do not know what we did in the preexistence to merit the wonderful blessings we enjoy. We have come to earth in this great… — Bruce R. McConkie
Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one… — Maya Angelou
Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and… — Neal A. Maxwell
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided. — James B. Weaver
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. — Robert Breault
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… — William McFee
If I have any advantage, maybe, as a writer, it is that I don't think I'm very interesting. I mean, beginning a novel with the… — John Irving
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's… — Terry Eagleton
The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along… — Adam Baldwin
And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race.… — Robert W. Service
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare

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