Long Runs Quotes - Page 17

• Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Zero, Self

  "Chartism". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1840.

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• As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

  Ben Bradlee

  Running, Jobs, Lying

  "Stamina, bravery, brilliance - the great Ben Bradlee had it all" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.

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• You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Long, People

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• All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

  Samuel Beckett

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Suits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.266, Counterpoint

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• At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Play, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

  Jeremy Piven

  Running, Long, Tough

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Heart, Long

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The hardest thing to remember is that what we each really want is the truth of our lives, good or bad. Not rocking the boat is an illusion that can only be maintained by the unspoken agreement not to feel and in the long run it never really works. Let go of saving the boat and save the passengers instead.

  Kenny Loggins

  Letting Go, Running, Good Life

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• You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run, and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other, and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse, it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Hurt, Disappointment

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• Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

  Roy Baumeister

  Running, Animal, Discipline

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Knowledge, Hands

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• You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.

  Will Barnet

  Running, Believe, Long

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• Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Running, Numbers, Long

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• The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Running, Long

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• Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Running, Philosophy, Life Is Good

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Real, Men

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910

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• I am a great believer in high-priced people. If a thing cost a lot it may not be any better, but it adds a certain amount of class that the cheap thing can never approach; in the long run it's the higher-priced things that are the cheapest.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Class

  Will Rogers (1977). “Letters of a self-made diplomat to his President”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Running, Opportunity

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• I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

  Rory MacDonald

  Sports, Running, Mma

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• In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

  Alan Perlis

  Running, Humorous, Long

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Sports, Running

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• When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

  Andy Stern

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

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• Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

  Daniel Starch

  Suicide, Running, Cheating

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• We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently. Anthony Trollope, the nineteenth-century writer who managed to be a prolific novelist while also revolutionizing the British postal system, observed, “A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” Over the long run, the unglamorous habit of frequency fosters both productivity and creativity.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Running, Creativity, Daily Tasks

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