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

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

  Ally Carter

  Heart, Mean, Different

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• You'd have to walk a thousand miles in my shoes just to see what its like to be me!!

  Eminem

  Shoes, Miles, Walks

  Song: Beautiful

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• A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, Morning, Sleep

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• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

  Susan Hill

  Heart, Race, Sky

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• Two thousand miles, Rachel,” he said tightly, and I guessed that no, it didn’t violate the rules of whatever he was doing out here, because he sure wasn’t out here keeping the coven from attacking me. “I have eaten nothing but slop for two days and used facilities I wouldn’t let my dogs urinate in. And what about that couple in the RV outside Texas? I’ll never get that memory out of my head.” - Trent to Rachel

  Kim Harrison

  Dog, Couple, Memories

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• I’d know you in the dark,” he said. “From a thousand miles away. There’s nothing you could become that I haven’t already fallen in love with.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dark, Miles, Said

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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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• You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sleep, Dust, Miles

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.39, Penguin

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