Remember, slow and steady wins the race.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
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 writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.
I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
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 now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
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 mathematical world could rest, I found the elephant tottering, and proceeded to construct a tortoise to keep the elephant from falling. But the tortoise was not more secure than the elephant, and after some twenty years of very arduous toil, I came to the conclusion that there was nothing more that I could do in the way of making mathematical knowledge indubitable.
All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.
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