100 Set The Pace Quotes

Following is our list of set the pace quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about fast pace.

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Famous Set The Pace Quotes

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack. — D. Wayne Lukas

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. — Steve Prefontaine

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. — Mary Kay Ash

Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket. — Sonny Barger

Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line. — Meb Keflezighi

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone — Kendrick Lamar

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. — Ted Turner

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. — William Shakespeare

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela

Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it. — Mao Zedong

Remember, slow and steady wins the race. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind. — Grace Coddington

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team. — Lee Iacocca

Short Set The Pace Quotes

  • Slow but steady wins the race. — Aesop
  • Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn
  • Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. — George Whitefield
  • A steady step is better than a run that tires. — Mexican Proverbs
  • Make haste cautiously. — Augustus
  • One step at a time is good walking. — Chinese Proverbs
  • To lead people walk behind them. — Lao Tzu
  • Whats up with your motto? Will you lead? Will you follow? — Nas
  • Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. — Milarepa
  • For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. — Edwin Way Teale

Set The Pace Image Quotes

Set the pace quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

Set The Tone Quotes

Never forget the relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for the relationship you have with everyone else. If you want to have better relationships with other people, work on yourself. — Steven Bartlett

Your first few hires will set the tone for your culture. Secure elite talent ASAP and hire carefully. — Cliff Lerner

Film noir is not a genre. It is not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood. It is a film 'noir', as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white. — Paul Schrader

Set the pace quote Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Your best player has to set a tone of intolerance for anything that gets in the way of winning — Jeff Van Gundy

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. — Robert Holden

We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.' — Marianne Williamson

Set the pace quote Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are. — Bill Johnson

The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. — Mike Pence

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. — Charles W. Colson

If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you. — Joel Osteen

Fast Pace Quotes

If it’s work, do it fast. If it’s food, eat it little by little. — Filipino Proverbs

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained. — Nigella Lawson

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep. — Bill Viola

Set the pace quote If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean? — Lil Wayne

You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere Eventually, you'll get there. — Jennie Finch

Set the pace quote Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents. — Michael Symon

The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night. — Joe Bastianich

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point. — Syd Barrett

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. — Fred Rogers

Own Pace Quotes

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. — Joan D. Chittister

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson

It's hard to focus on your own growth when you obsess over what other people are doing on IG. Sometimes you have to cut the noise, put your head down, and remember that you're making progress at your own pace. — Jaspreet Singh

Set the pace quote Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. — Vernon Baker

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference. — Peter Schmidt

If knowledge and wisdom keep the same pace in development, the adept is enabled to grasp all the laws of the microcosm and the microcosm, not only from the point of view of wisdom, but also from the intellectual side, that is, in a bipolar way, to perceive and utilize them for his own development. — Franz Bardon

Set the pace quote Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress. — Allen Toussaint

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up. — Natsuki Takaya

Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination. — Lorraine Moller

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More Set The Pace Quotes

Those of us placed in a position of leadership must be prepared to grasp the nettle if we unite in doing so, and if, in addition, we set a worthy example and a marat on pace in probity, unselfishness, and self-sacrifice, the people will follow, all too readily, in our footsteps. — Obafemi Awolowo

At any given point you can release your greatest self. Don’t let anyone hold you back. Don’t let anyone dilute you. Don’t be peer pressured into being less than you are. People willing to dilute themselves for the sake of others is one of the great tragedies of our time. Stop letting others define and set the pace for your life. Get out there and be your best. Do your best. Live your best. Make every day count and you’ll see how exponentially more exciting, thrilling, successful, happy and full your life will be. — Steve Maraboli

Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives. — Dawson Trotman

Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the level of your understanding. You will find that it has always been you who set the pace and depth of your experience by recognizing and honoring your true nature. — Mooji

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension. — Hal Borland

When setting a long-term goal, find the pace necessary to achieve it. — Rickson Gracie

I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me — Muhammad Ali

Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can keep up with the pace I'm gonna set except me. There's not a man alive who can whup me. I'm too fast. I'm too smart. I'm too pretty. I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked. — Muhammad Ali

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it. — Ridley Scott

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic. — Ron Clarke

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set, gray life, and apathetic end. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. — Stanley Gault

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. — Frank Dane

The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!" — Cate Marvin

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. — Stanley C. Gault

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard. — Eva Marie Saint

There's something helpful about the fast pace of a TV set where everything has to be finished by the end of the week. You have to finish the episode; it doesn't matter how long you have to go on Friday night, but you have to get it done. — Emily Mortimer

The WTO has outlived its usefulness as a setting for trade negotiations. It can still be a good place to resolve disputes (though this can take years) and share ideas, but most countries would be better off choosing their own trading partners and lowering trade barriers at their own pace. — Daniel Altman

When you're directing an ongoing series, the tone has already been set. So a director will come in and fulfill that tone - reinforce the characters and their behavior. The challenge is to find unique ways that you can visually tell the story while keeping the established tone and the pace and the characters. — Bryan Cranston

When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day. — Bonnie McFarlane

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly what I'm trying to get beforehand. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

A book is something that young readers can experience on their own time. They decide when to turn the page. They'll put their arm right on the page so you can't turn it because they're not ready to go to the next page yet. They just want to look at it again, or they want to read the book over and over because they really enjoy setting the pace themselves. — Jan Brett

Cornering is like bringing a woman to a climax. Both you and the car must work together. You start to enter the area of excitement at the corner, you set up a pace which is right for the car and after you've told it it is coming along with you, you guide it along at a rhythm which has by now become natural. Only after you've cleared the corner you can both take pleasure in knowing it's gone well. — Jackie Stewart

A: Set the pace and rule the race. Seek new ways to differentiate, new ways to surprise and delight your customers. — Ron Kaufman

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration. — Anthony Daniels

We are the first men of a Future that has not materialized. We belong to a "great age" that has not "come off". We moved too quickly for the world. We set too sharp a pace. — Wyndham Lewis

It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told. — Peter Drucker

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately. — Jennifer Granholm

I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots. — Sutton Foster

Mauricio Pellegrino has the pace of a tricycle with a flat tyre ridden by Luciano Pavarotti, and the turning speed of an oil tanker with its anchor set. — Pete Gill

Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation. — George Osborne

Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life. — Lysa TerKeurst

The leader is the bell ringer, the trumpet blower, the drum beater, the vibration maker, and the vision caster… A great leader imparts the burden, inspires commitment, and sets the pace for achievement of God’s purpose. — Phil Pringle

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself. — David Cottrell

Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible. — Haile Gebrselassie

He who invites us to follow will always be out in front of us with His Spirit and influence setting the pace. He has charted and marked the course, opened the gates, and shown the way. He has invited us to come unto Him, and the best time to enjoy His companionship is straightway. We can best get on the course and stay on the course by doing as Jesus did-make a total commitment to do the will of His Father. — Marvin J. Ashton

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations. — Alexander Cockburn

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship . — Laurence J. Peter

I think expectations might be preceding reality, ... In the long run we've got some real opportunity here, but we've come a long way too quickly. We may need to ratchet it back a little and set a new foundation to grow for the rest of the year, but continuing at this pace is going to be difficult. — Michael Davies

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed. — Mark Van Doren

Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition! — Julia Spencer-Fleming

On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points. — Pete Gill

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them. — Walter Scott

All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come. — Daphne Gottlieb

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