Thousand Miles Quotes

• A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Reality, Cities

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• I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

  Horace Walpole

  Hours, Miles, Found

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspiring, Peace, Military

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Uplifting, Journey, Difficult And Easy

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Home, Boys, Asian

  Speech at Akron University, Akron, Ohio, 21 Oct. 1964

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• Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

  John Larroquette

  Thinking, Boys, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Groups, Jazz

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• To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.

  Vimala Thakar

  Travel, Journey, Feet

  Vimala Thakar (1986). “Blossoms of Friendship”, p.58, Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

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• The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.

  Seth Godin

  Example, Bars, Facts

  Seth Godin (2015). “We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal”, p.49, Penguin

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• The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

  Joe Rogan

  Moving, People, Nuclear

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Lasts, Steps

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• My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Journey, Land

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

  Abby Sunderland

  Twelve, Faith In God, Resilient

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.198, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?

  Edward Everett

  Travel, Ocean, Heart

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• Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Home, People

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.414, Penguin

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Animal, Space

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.85, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• ... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

  Carolyn Wells

  Uplifting, Men, Color

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Horse, Blood, Two

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