Long Runs Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

  James Hilton

  Running, War, Believe

  This Week Magazine 1937

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• In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

  Loretta Lynn

  Running, Long, Luck

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.71, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.

  Brendan Gill

  Running, War, Inspirational Life

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• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Education, Running, Fear

  "Quora: What Does Freedom of Speech Mean?". www.yahoo.com. May 13, 2017.

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• Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.

  Bertrand Russell

  Running, Work, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.122, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Women, Hands

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.34, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Running, Wisdom

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• Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Running, Loneliness, Long

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

  Rolf Potts

  Running, Simple, Long

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.36, Ballantine Books

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• Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with; and, not unfrequently, in spite of a long career of usefulness, turned out to be wholly erroneous in the long run.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Knowledge, Science

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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• In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

  Theobald Smith

  Running, Science, Long

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• If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Science, Discovery

  Arthur C. Clarke (1968). “the Promise of Space”

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• No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

  Jack Welch

  Inspiring, Leadership, Running

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