#long run

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. ↗

— John Major

#first #game #hare #intellect #long

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

#factor #how #long #long run #much

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. ↗

— Chris Martin

#become #benefit #bled #countries #dry

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#course #easily #free #free men #gives

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#everyone #going #honestly #i #long

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#culture #environment #important #less #long

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development

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

— George Orwell

#find #long #long run #machine-gun #may

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

— Sylvia Plath

#flare #interest #life #long #long run

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#finally #happens #long #long run #overtakes