Longevity conquers scandal every time. — Shelby Foote
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. — Marshall Goldsmith
Once established, reputations do not easily change. — Albert Bandura
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. — Thomas Paine
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. — Bruce Lee
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda
Trust is earned over long periods of time, through consistent positive actions. — Changpeng Zhao
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night. — Iggy Azalea
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. — Livy
The best founders are long-term thinkers. — Naval Ravikant
I think character is permanent, and issues are transient. — James Stockdale
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake. — Richard Russo
Short Long Standing Quotes
Play long-term games with long-term people. — Naval Ravikant
It takes longer to build a relationship than it does to destroy one. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away — Colonel Sanders
Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch
What habits would you start today that you'd still want to be doing 25 years from now? — Dan Sullivan
I think long-term and on a long enough time scale. — Naval Ravikant
Consistency of effort over the long run is everything. — Angela Duckworth
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. — Robert W. Service
Slow but steady wins the race. — Aesop
Top 10 Long Standing Quotes
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down. — Mia Hamm
For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho. — Michael K. Simpson
I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress. — Wen Ho Lee
Saying I’m in it for the long run is a bit like standing at the base of Mount Everest, pointing to the top, and saying, That’s where I’m heading. Well, that’s nice. Now comes the test. — Morgan Housel
I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. — Elayne Boosler
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me. — Ben E. King
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for. — Paul Watson
If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me. — Ben E. King
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin
Be not afraid of going slowly, Be afraid of standing still.
All Day Long Quotes
People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are. — Gurbaksh Chahal
It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox
May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes. — Cyrus the Great
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. — Gertrude Stein
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. — Marcel Proust
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside. — Shel Silverstein
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? — Gloria Steinem
Life was not intended to be simply a round of work, no matter how interesting and important that work may be. A moment’s pause to watch the glory of a sunrise or a sunset is soul-satisfying, while a bird's song will set the steps to music all day long. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns. — Kurt Vonnegut
If you eat a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day long. — American Proverbs
What Do You Stand For Quotes
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? — Hakeem Olajuwon
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen. — Eugen Herrigel
I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. — Madonna
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do? — Miranda Lambert
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer. — David Morrell
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people. — Walt Whitman
If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.
That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are. — Shane Koyczan
When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do. — Common
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for. — John Keble
Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win? — Lane Kirkland
Longstanding Quotes
Cryptocurrency is the first practical solution to a longstanding problem in computer science called the Byzantine Generals Problem. — Nick Szabo
Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships — Ruskin Bond
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight. — Kamala Harris
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners. — Jessica Valenti
Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise. — Dinah Shore
It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer. — Howard Berman
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. — Michael Medved
We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them. — Zygmunt Bauman
I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bear arms and I will remain committed to see that this freedom is not infringed upon, revoked, or limited in any way. — Jeff Miller
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do. — Russel Honore
I don't know how long it has been since my ear has been free from the roll of a drum. It is the music I sleep by, and I love it.... I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. — Clara Barton
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without trial or hearing. I would like to see the government admit they were wrong and do something about it, so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color. — Fred Korematsu
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton
There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open. — Mary Oliver
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to the tycoons and politicians and tell them so? — Diane Ravitch
Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history - the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency. — Jerome Powell
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden. — Virgil
I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.' — Mitch Hedberg
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobel Prize Committee, the Nobel Prize for Physics is rightly considered everywhere as the highest reward within the reach of workers in Natural Philosophy. — Guglielmo Marconi
Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident. — Nicola Sturgeon
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning. — Paul Newman
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. — Albert Einstein
Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff
How much you move affects your strength, your power, your balance, how you look, how you think, how well you withstand the high winds and rain showers of life and how long you will stand. Everyone needs concentrated doses of several kinds of movement to remain functional. — Eric Heiden
A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. — James Madison
How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks. — Benjamin Zander
Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. — Charles Stanley
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. — Minor White
I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words imply weakness, fragility, the inability to stand firm in a storm. If you want to change your body, aim for 'athletic.' An athletic body is healthy, strong, and built to thrive. An athletic body can take many shapes. — Lauren Fleshman
IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. — Ginni Rometty
It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like the sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. 'Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine.' Yet, I hesitate to name our story that. For I think of us more as flowers in the attic. — Virginia C. Andrews
I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray. — Robyn Davidson
The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. — Potter Stewart
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. — Axel Munthe
Tell me what do you do when you've done all you can and it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand, stand, stand, don't you dare give up. Through the storm, through the rain, through the hurt , stand through the pain, hold on, be strong, God will step in and it won't be long. — Donnie McClurkin
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell! — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. — Oswald Spengler
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. — Dr. Seuss
Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. — Albert Camus
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. — Tim Wise
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. — Axel Munthe
Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world. — Fukuzawa Yukichi
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