Tortoise Quotes

48 quotes by 41 authors

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was… — Anita Brookner
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. — Henry David Thoreau
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise… — Terry Pratchett
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and… — Eugene Ionesco
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.… — Taiichi Ohno
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag… — Megan Whalen Turner
The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern… — E. Cobham Brewer
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I… — Robert Kiyosaki
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any… — B.K.S. Iyengar
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which the… — Bertrand Russell
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon. — Maureen Lipman
Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise — Robert Lloyd

Who Wrote These Tortoise Quotes

41 authors contributed a total of 48 Tortoise Quotes, led by these top contributors: