Long Runs Quotes - Page 15

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Running, Long

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• The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Long, Firsts

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• I sighed and went back to filling out the application. The whole thing made me feel like my family didn’t think I had any right to want something of my own. It bothered me, but I knew I couldn’t hold it against them in the long run. We couldn’t afford the luxury of wants. We had needs.

  Kiera Cass

  Running, Thinking, Want Something

  Kiera Cass (2014). “The Selection Series 3-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Prince, The Guard”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Running, Long, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.192, Macmillan

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• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  William Goldman

  Running, Memories, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.149, A&C Black

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• We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Selfish, Long

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin

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• To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

  Thomas Mann

  Running, Fashion, Art

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• In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

  Bob Frank

  Running, Mean, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

  John Knowles

  Running, Thinking, Long

  John Knowles (1969). “A separate peace”, Bantam Books, 1966

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• In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Freedom, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Government

  TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan, August 31, 1959.

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• Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

  Bo Schembechler

  Basketball, Running, Player

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.

  James Anthony Froude

  Strength, Running, Lying

  "Thomas Carlyle; a History of His Life in London, 1834-1881".

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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

  Running, Self Esteem, Character

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Country, Truth

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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 a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Ocean

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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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

  Basketball, Running, Team

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.35, Hachette UK

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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 it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Running, Hurt

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• In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

  Booker T. Washington

  Running, Race, Differences

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• Some few, and I am one of them, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would proclaim a crusade against slavery. In the long-run, a million horrid deaths would be amply repaid in the cause of humanity. Great God! how I should like to see the greatest curse on earth - slavery - abolished!

  Charles Darwin

  Death, Running, Loss

  "The Autobiography of Charles Darwin".

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• Total war is the most humane in the long run.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, War, Long

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money to their lives. It preoccupies their thoughts, creates artificial needs, and draws a curtain between them and the world.

  Herbert Croly

  Running, Men, Long

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• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Atheist, Long

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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