Top 150 Long Run Quotes

We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we’re getting out of at all.

I’m not trying to do something in particular each at-bat, I’m just trying to get the most out of that at-bat, do something that helps the team in the long run.

You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.

I believe I’ll see the reunification of North and South Korea in my lifetime and that defectors should play a role in rebuilding the country. In the long run, I want to return to North Korea, because that’s where I belong.

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences – and underestimated in the long run.

We’re very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won’t do something in the short run that I don’t feel is right for the long run. That, I’ve watched many CEOs do.

My parents had a strong impact on who I am today. My mother and dad both encouraged us to think about the long term – where you wanted to be – to think about education, to think about what is right and what is wrong, and to do things that will help you in the long run.

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it’s much easier with Him by our side.

As the Executive Chairman of ‘Breitbart News’ with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it’s hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.

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

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn’t.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.

Many people struggle with losing weight and then regaining it. But there is no convincing evidence that the effort to lose weight actually promotes more weight gain in the long run.

I want to clean up my handle. Get stronger. Those are the things that will help me out in the long run.

I believe in the long run, God will vindicate me.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.

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.

To those out of work, it may seem unfair for someone to complain that they aren’t happy with the type of work they are doing, but the more we like our jobs, the better we do them. In the long run, this doesn’t just make us happy – it makes businesses more successful and increases employment even further.

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate – at least in the long run – the courage to reverse its steps.

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.

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

I have decided, and am truly excited to announce, that I will be turning pro. I believe that, in the long run, this is the best way for me continue to develop as an athlete.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won’t help you get healthy in the long run.

Ultimately, what we’re looking for in the long run is to find other Earth-like planets.

If we don’t invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilities, and skills training and mentoring, we will all pay more in the long run.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it’s actually a strength. It’s not a weak move to say, ‘I need help.’ In the long run, it’s way better, because you have to fix it.

For me, the real goal is how do we make vibrant and vital faith communities that are sustainable for the long run.

I suppose in the long run, it’s the good work that outlasts the shoddy work, but there’s enough room for all kinds of writing.

The younger folks, the Gen Z-ers and millennials, might abuse their skin a little bit, and because they’re so young they aren’t intentionally taking care of their skin to protect it in the long run.

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

I think if you have a series for a long time, it’s in some ways like being in a play with a long run – in that the character stays the same – and so you are constantly posed with the challenge of making it interesting and unique week after week, year after year.

What works for me is simply to read a lot of stuff throughout the year – not with a particular story or theme in mind, but just because you never know what might be useful or interesting in the long run. I much prefer to just absorb a lot of stuff and let the old unconscious chew down on it over time.

Learn how to make your own weaves. It will help you save a lot of money in the long run!

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.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

There are people worse off than me. I’ve had a very long run. I’m fine really. I’m just old.

‘Frankenstein’ did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn’t necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they’re used up.

If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn’t really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.

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

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

In the long run, competition makes us better… it drives innovation.

But in the long run we’re not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

I’m in show business, and we have a long history here of making movies about law enforcement officers. If you’re my age, and you’re male, and you’re trying to get work, you’re going to run into those roles as opposed to having a long run of playing dancers.

I learned to be more flexible when I went from Chelsea to Tottenham. I always thought more in the long run without thinking in the short term.

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

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.