Long Run Quotes

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

Life, Nature, Men

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Long, Die, Until

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Long, Often, Run

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain

Education, Long, Run

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.
Dalai Lama

Long, Difficult, Union

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Long, High

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Long, Run

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Character, Long

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Long, Two, Spirit

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
George Orwell

Food, Long, May

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Long, Days

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Long, Quality

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Long, Done, Short

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster

Long, Nothing, Run

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Long, Dead, Run

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas Huxley

Truth, Long, Sense

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell

Long, Reason, Fail

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

Life, Long, Passion

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

Age, Greatest, Long

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

Work, Daily, Long

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Long, Dead, Run

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.
William Shatner

Long, Short, Run

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White

Change, Long, Sense

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.
Carter G. Woodson

Long, Against, Talent

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Francis Schaeffer

Long, Run, Deadly

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright

Government, Long, Democracy

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot

Long, Law, Decisions

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis

Long, Rude, Run

If you play your cards right things are going to happen in the long run. In the short run, it is anybody's guess.
Ron Livingston

Long, Happen, Play

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