Slowly But Surely Quotes

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Life, Goal

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Track, Stronger

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• As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

  Joseph Prince

  Divine Wisdom, Victory, Good Success

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• Slowly but surely, the older I get, the fatter I get. It just goes.

  John DiMaggio

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

  Thomas Huxley

  Hazards, Way, Guidance

  Thomas Henry Huxley (19??). “Aphorisms of Thomas Huxley”

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• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

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• It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it.

  Rob Brown

  People, Needs, Lasts

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Race, Democracy

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• The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Progress, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2100, Manonmani Publishers

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• Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.

  Stefan Zweig

  Memories, Want, Remember

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

  Alexis Tsipras

  Greek, Unemployment, Economy

  "Obama's on First Overseas Trip after Trump Elected; Obama to Greece: NATO is Absolutely Vital; Obama Travels to Greece Post- Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 15, 2016.

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• Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.

  Michael Klare

  Military, Oil, Protection

  Michael Klare (2007). “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

  Henry James

  Caring, Garden, Long

  Henry James (2016). “The Letters of Henry James”, p.298, The Floating Press

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• As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Taken, People, Desire

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• In the absence of love, we began slowly but surely to fall apart.

  Marianne Williamson

  Fall, Falling Apart, Absence

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Track, Ashes, Rising

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• In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

  Isabel Allende

  Moving, Thinking, Diversity

  "Isabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, America, Issues

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• More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

  Saul Williams

  People, Ears

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• You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.

  Haruki Murakami

  Intimate Relationships, Meals, Different

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.31, Random House

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• Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street’s excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Wall, Feet, President

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Failure, Animal

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