Top 150 Long Run Quotes

If you go about life the right way and you’re good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.
Eve Torres
I don’t know why it was canceled, but ‘Mancuso, FBI,’ it should have had a good long run, but it wasn’t picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.
Robert Loggia
In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.
Norman Davies
I really do see the good in people, and I don’t want to change that. That’s really how I view things, so sometimes I’ll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.
Jennifer Morrison
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
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore’s, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.
Peter L. Berger
One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
Ellie Goulding
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
K. Eric Drexler
If ‘Chicago Fire’ goes for a long run, maybe I’ll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can’t throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I’m not big on ‘things,’ though, so I don’t own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn’t know where to put them.
Taylor Kinney
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis
In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.
Charles M. Schwab
Building walls isn’t going to work in the long run. Some people are happy with the wall in Israel, but somebody will get a weapon someday and knock it over or something. Walls aren’t the answer between countries, though.
Arlo Guthrie
Going for a really long run, a bike ride, or cross-country skiing helps me get away from all the noise. I tell myself, ‘The pain you’re feeling, just enjoy it because it’s going to help you across that finish line first.’ If you’re having a crap day, go for a run. It makes a big difference.
Lewis Hamilton
In the long run, I think I like ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ better as a television series, because it had so much more time and room and space to grow.
Seanan McGuire
The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.
Martin Feldstein
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and infe

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
Margaret Geller
The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
Ian Lustick
The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute – in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
Satya Nadella
In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.
Eliot Spitzer
Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Anybody who can improve the business in the long run is a good buyer.
Rajeev Suri
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
I pay people very, very well – probably more than I have to. But that costs me less money in the long run because I’m not having to constantly train somebody. I pay them enough that they don’t go seeking a higher scale at the next restaurant.
Paula Deen
People understand we’re on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
David Axelrod
I believe that if you have a person who understands your profession, it is a little easier and in the long run, it helps because you understand the subjectivity of time and notion that comes along with a particular profession.
Rubina Dilaik
It’s not always easy to take the high road when you are hurting, but in the long run at least you still have your integrity and dignity.
Cynthia Bailey
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Ben Carson
Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I’m concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don’t think it makes you happier.
Alan Arkin
I have a skepticism toward romance. I believe that decency and companionship are, in the long run, more important in life.
Edith Pearlman
You’re a sovereign as a citizen. If you’re not involved in your government, you’re not doing your job. In the long run that’s very bad for the Republic.
Michael Novak
I think it’s evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
Stone Gossard
I came to the conclusion that it was unlikely that a man as really awful as I think that Steve Jobs was could possibly create a great company for the long term. I just don’t believe bad guys do well in the long run.
Julian Robertson
If I had a son, I would steer him away from wrestling. It was fun for me, but for most it’s not healthy in the long run.
Terry Funk
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II
I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn’t look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it’s going to be fine.
Ben Carson
I think anytime you can take as much off the quarterback as possible, that only helps them out in the long run.
Matt LaFleur
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
Regardless of how I feel, I always push through all of my workouts before I get ready for the game, because even though I might not like it then, even though I might be a little tired or fatigued, in the long run, it pays off.
Paul George
American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.
Alia Shawkat
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we’ve got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God wants in the Church.
Rowan Williams
I don’t know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don’t know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that’s about what I can say. He’s my buddy and I wish he were around.
Andreas Katsulas