Far Distance Quotes

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

We may go to the moon, but that' s not very far.

The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance.

But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.

We talk about heaven being so far away.

It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.

I've been thinking a lot about space.

It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

I believe firmly in plodding. Productivity is more a matter of diligent, long-distance hiking than it is one-hundred-yard dashing. Doing a little bit now is far better than hoping to do a lot on the morrow. So redeem the fifteen minute spaces. Chip away at it.

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals.

In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

You won't realize the distance you've walked until you take a look around and realize how far you've been.

Listen can you hear the distance calling Far away but will be with you soon

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

Actually, ambition won't get you that far.

You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.

All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

The foreground in a picture is always unattractive.

.. Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love.

When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.