65 Long Way Quotes On Success In Life
These long way quotes will inspire you. A long way, a great distance.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging long way quotes, long way sayings, and long way proverbs.
Best Long Way Quotes
- “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” ~ Douglas Adams
- “We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.” ~ Barack Obama
- “My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I’m a long way from the human being I’d liked to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
- “We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I’m sure there will be some obstacles in the path … But the good faith effort that’s being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.” ~ Dick Durbin
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“A little bit of attention can go a long way.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
- “Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “But trust can take you a long way. And my faith takes me a long way. And I think that our pains, our vulnerabilities, and our insecurities can fuel us to be better. To try harder. To dig deeper.” ~ Mariska Hargitay
- “And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.” ~ Will Rogers
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“I just have a vision of something, and it seems to go a long way. One thought goes a long way.” ~ Sammy Hagar
- “I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.” ~ John Cornyn
- “Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.” ~ Iris Apfel
- “Americans of our own time – minority and majority Americans alike – need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.” ~ Elijah Cummings
- “My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman – a Sicilian! – and if she didn’t like something, she’d let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.” ~ Marlo Thomas
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“The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.” ~ Bram Stoker
- “You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- “We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.” ~ Catherine Anderson
- “The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.” ~ John Maynard Keynes , Long way quotes love
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“When you’re trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.” ~ Michael Lewis
- “Fashion is very judgmental. It’s something where you have to be careful. I have a long way to go before I can be a designer. I’d love to one day, but we’ll see.” ~ Sloane Stephens
- “I’ve done festivals in the past where I’d be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall – but that’ll be a long way off. So it’s very exciting.” ~ John Mulaney
- “UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down – protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.” ~ Ewan McGregor , Long way quotes down
- “We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.” ~ Harrison Ford
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“What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “I like looking at the countryside as well as anyone… a little countryside goes a long way, but it’s almost like the DNA of a civilisation is in its cities.” ~ Jonathan Meades
- “Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story song, the variation on a theme (saying the same thing over and over and over again) song, and the weird song. It’s important to have weird songs, but I find that a little weirdness goes a long way.” ~ David Massengill
- “A little reciprocity goes a long way.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
- “New Republican Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is fluent in Chinese. In a short period of time the Republicans have come quite a long way. The last Republican president wasn’t even fluent in English.” ~ David Letterman
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“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.” ~ Yiyun Li
- “On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.” ~ Jim Ramstad
- “A little personality goes a long way.” ~ Jean Chatzky
- “As a woman in sport media, you have to be smart. You use what you can to your advantage and make sure you know what you’re talking about or you’re A) not going to last very long or B) never going to get a good job. I think we’ve come a long way and probably still have a ways to go, but… I just don’t take any of this super seriously. I’m not curing cancer and I’m not a doctor. It’s just television. I don’t know why some people get so worked up about it.” ~ Michelle Beadle
- “We haven’t met… I’m Kori Daniels. If you don’t get that gun out of my face, I’m gonna take it, then I’m gonna break your jaw so I can unhinge it and shove your pistol down your throat. That way the bullet goes through the long way.” ~ Rachel Vincent
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“I’ve come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I’ve spent everything I have to get here.” ~ Richard Kadrey
- “Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are. That there is some sort of truth to the whole thing, if you could just get to that point where you could see it, and live it, and feel it. I think it is a long, long, way off. In the meantime there’s suffering and darkness and confusion and absurdities, and it’s people kind of going in circles. It’s fantastic. It’s like a strange carnival: it’s a lot of fun, but it’s a lot of pain.” ~ David Lynch
- “And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.” ~ Libba Bray
- “Max – you have a bigger mission than finding the flock’s parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held my wings steady, coasting for a long, long way on a warm updraft. It was like floating on a cloud, the best feeling you can imagine. I wish you could try it with me. Maybe next time. You know, Voice, I thought finally, my friends are my world.” ~ James Patterson
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“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.” ~ Isak Dinesen
- “A little love and attention can go a long way…too bad more people don’t realize that.” ~ Frank Peretti
- “Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life. And when you feel better about life, your life is better. With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life, the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.” ~ Art Linkletter
- “Let us be patient with one another,
And even patient with ourselves.
We have a long, long way to go.
So let us hasten along the road,
The road of human tenderness and generosity.
Groping, we may find one another’s hands in the dark.” ~ Emily Greene Balch -
“Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.” ~ Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
- “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.” ~ George Wald
- “The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.” ~ Lakshmi Mittal
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“And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.” ~ Roger Penrose
- “Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.” ~ Dean Koontz
- “Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good deal the worse for wearing, a coxcomb extremely shattered, a pretty gentleman very insipid, a baronet very solemn, a squire very fat, a fop much affected, a barrister learned in Coke upon Littleton, but who knows nothing of `long ways for marry as will’, an heir apparent, very awkward; which of these will cast a favourable eye upon me I don’t know.” ~ Elizabeth Montagu
- “I can be a much better player. I’ve got a long ways to go.” ~ Lauren Jackson
- “Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.” ~ Eric Staal
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“Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.” ~ Chien-Ming Wang
- “A long way of saying I’ve seen a lot of kind of more systemic and processed changes. Although we still are providing the kind of material you’re still seeing out there now.” ~ Susan Downey
- “Of course, we’re so lucky to be in a time where that’s not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we’ve come a long way with medicine and women’s health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that’s still a huge issue.” ~ Eve Hewson
- “For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome.” ~ Darren Fletcher
- “Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.” ~ Cecil O. Samuelson
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“Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss.” ~ Pablo Neruda
- “I can’t stand whining. I can’t stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they’re not happy with the choices they’ve made. You live in a time when there are endless choices … Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don’t even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself … Do something!” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.” ~ Socrates
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“We’ve come a long way, we’ve come a long way and we never even left L.A.” ~ Michelle Shocked
- “It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battlecruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of traveling with a piano.” ~ J. B. Priestley
- “We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.” ~ Pete Stark
