Top 92 Goes A Long Way Quotes
#1. It is an acknowledged truth that the constancy of a good father during childhood goes a long way to prevent a girl from letting herself get kicked around by jerkface male sadists later in life -- and I am no exception to this rule.
Leah McLaren
#2. It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.
Rosa Brooks
#3. A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Tahir Shah
#4. In TV and film, a little goes a long way. I see the show as horror so a lot of the [violence] is suggested. But it is violent. It is gory. I don't see any need to up the gore. Just to keep it as real and visceral as possible.
Glen Mazzara
#5. A nice face goes a long way with me," she said. "And yours ... well, the more I look at it, the more I get to thinking, "He'll do'."
"Me, too," I said. "Every once in a while, I think about myself, "What the hell, I'll do'.
Haruki Murakami
#6. What are you doing this weekend to improve your financial situation? Sacrifice made today goes a long way for a better tomorrow.
Robert Kiyosaki
#7. 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
#8. Voice isn't fixed or unmalleable, it adapts to the characters you are creating and the story being told. I suppose in some way that's true in life - a little flexibility goes a long way.
Ayana Mathis
#9. Cantor's discovery that lines, planes, cubes, and polytopes were all equivalent as sets of points goes a long way toward explaining why set theory was such a revolutionary development for math-revolutionary in theory and practice both.
David Foster Wallace
#10. Be careful with the man jewelry. A little goes a long way.
Ashton Kutcher
#12. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.
Julie Dillon
#13. Is it possible to love by simply not being an ass? I don't think so. But it goes a long way to clearing a space where love can happen.
Peter Heller
#14. With or without horse slaughter, horse rescues need our help and support. That can involve financial donations, volunteering, or even donating items like brushes and blankets. Horse rescues operate with little money, so every little thing you can do to help goes a long way.
Bo Derek
#15. 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
#16. If you're a guy, you should get girls flowers all the time. They never get old and you can never get them enough. I'm never disappointed when I get flowers. I always thought guys who don't buy women flowers are such fools. All it takes is one. A little goes a long way with flowers.
Alison Brie
#17. Sometimes all a parent needs is to know the impossible is actually possible. Hope goes a long way when it comes to autism. Matt gives people hope.
Liz Becker
#18. Ain is a marvelous purifier ... It is not necessary to beat the child into submission; a little bit of pain goes a long way for a young child. However, the spanking should be of sufficient magnitude to cause the child to cry genuinely.
James Dobson
#19. Sex needed to be a little rough and crude to balance out the elegance. A touch of tasteful violence goes a long way.
Karina Halle
#20. Even a little practical working familiarity with cattle goes a long way in Africa, but how many international relations studies include this?
T.K. Naliaka
#21. As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.
Tahir Shah
#22. I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
Summer Glau
#23. An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#24. A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.
Helen Keller
#25. Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
Dean Koontz
#26. I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
Thomas Steinbeck
#27. A positive attitude goes a long way. Focus your energy on the here and now, and see how a happier you shines through.
Jamie Eason
#29. A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
Marty Rubin
#31. In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision.
Dale Carnegie
#32. Over the years I've grown more comfortable with making people uncomfortable because that is when growth can happen. You need a little conflict. You need a little tension. And that is part of my calling. A little tough love goes a long way!
Mark Batterson
#33. Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.
Richard Branson
#34. When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.'
Christine Taylor
#35. A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way.
Allen Klein
#37. But I should like to take these things on full gallop, instead of dawdling along gaping at them. I get fearfully tired, and a very little Abbey goes a long way with me.
Susan Hale
#39. When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
Michael Lewis
#40. Stay true to yourself because it goes a long way. If you don't know who you are, who are you really?
Brandy Norwood
#41. Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
Edoardo Ponti
#42. A word of forgiveness, not to mention love, goes a long way toward healing the soul.
Diane Owens Prettyman
#43. I had acquired an undeniable mystique - if only to the Bancroft butt-room boys. Don't forget: Miss Frost was an older woman, and that goes a long way with boys - even if the older woman has a penis!
John Irving
#44. A little of me goes a long way," I told my wife on our wedding night.
W.H. Mitchell
#45. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.
Derek Jeter
#47. The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users.
Devon Monk
#48. Public condemnation goes a long way in establishing what is and what is not acceptable in a society. The public good will prevail if the public demands it.
Laurence Overmire
#49. Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.
Ben Yagoda
#50. A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.
George Bernard Shaw
#51. I made my kids into Viking fans, so they will carry their misery with them, too. A little disappointment in life goes a long way.
Dave Goldberg
#52. It doesn't help to follow every rise and fall of your portfolio. It's better to tune out the day-to-day shifts, in fact. But getting a handle on the larger picture will make you feel more secure, and that goes a long way in calming your fear.
Jean Chatzky
#53. People are very bad and very good. A little love goes a long way.
Amy Poehler
#54. The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.
Corey Taylor
#55. A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver
Kristen J. Duca
#58. 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
#59. The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.
Darren Criss
#60. Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.
Danica Patrick
#61. It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.
Richard Jefferies
#63. Change your environment and if the need be, change your company because it goes a long way to create another version for you which can easily ripe for decay!
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. A little bit of kindness goes a long way with women.
Barry Unsworth
#65. Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
Lamar Odom
#66. Having a record of well-child visits also protects parents, especially those who choose to follow an alternative lifestyle, from being accused of medical neglect. An ongoing record showing regular well-child visits goes a long way to negate such accusations, supposing they are ever made.
Anonymous
#67. A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
Ron Fournier
#68. My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
Nancy Lublin
#69. Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.
Charles D. Hayes
#70. A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
Amanda Lindhout
#71. Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
Candice Olson
#72. Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
Samuel Smiles
#73. Sometimes a little naivety goes a long long way!" (I said that)
Robert Greenfield
#74. I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.
John Thune
#76. Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#77. Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
Cyril Connolly
#78. A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
Hunter S. Thompson
#79. My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.
Ayelet Waldman
#80. And then I save up for a ring and ask you to marry me. And then, if everything goes the way I want, you agree. And then whatever you want. As long as you're with me, I know things will be alright
Liz Reinhardt
#81. 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
#82. The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn't allow for women, and it's also racist - it doesn't allow for other cultures.
Larry McMurtry
#83. I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.
Jeanette Winterson
#84. If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.
Jon Stewart
#85. When a meeting goes way too long always remember that some people need to talk, but some people need to go home.
Jim Jennings
#86. Money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
Caitlin Thomas
#87. A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.
Chris Rock
#88. I haven't experienced love at first sight yet. I've seen very, very beautiful girls and been awestruck but never love at first sight. I think confidence goes such a long way with women. A girl who is confident with who she is and she can really flaunt that is really sexy.
Tristan Wilds
#89. There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.
Jeffrey Kluger
#90. The history of horror movies goes back a long way ... of people trying to convincingly be terrified when looking at a piece of tape on the side of the camera box. I have a whole new respect for it.
Josh Hamilton
#91. When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.
McKayla Maroney
#92. I don't try to hit the ball 500 feet. It looks good when you hit it 500 feet, but as long as it goes over the fence, it's a home run. When you swing hard, it takes a little bit of recognition away from you. The power you're trying to increase - you're not all the way through it with your vision.
David Ortiz
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