Slow Quotes

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years.

To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Be not afraid of growing slowly; Be afraid only of standing still.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

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?

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery.

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. One step at a time.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Slow help is no help.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift.

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

Good things come slow - especially in distance running.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence His Or Her heart first opened.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

I recommend the art of slow reading.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James 1:19-20

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform.

One thing at a time, all things in succession.

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on.

No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You haven't got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you're looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That's pretty heavy. That's worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You've got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one.