Long Quotes

"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high."
-Henry David Thoreau

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

"In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."
-Henry David Thoreau

"So long as there are men there will be wars."
-Albert Einstein

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it."
-Albert Einstein

"As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions."
-Voltaire

"We become what we think about all day long."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
-Buddha

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
-George Orwell

"A light heart lives long."
-Irish Proverb

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
-Carl Jung

"So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity."
-Andre Gide

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. "
-Andre Gide

"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

"Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who has much to proclaim one day, stays silently much immersed within himself: he who has to kindle the lightning one day, must for a long time--be a cloud."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
-Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-Oscar Wilde

"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
-Oscar Wilde

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
-Chuck Palahniuk

"On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
-Chuck Palahniuk