If A Man Does Not Keep Pace Quotes

#1. Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let
him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or
an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau

#3. A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Aeschylus

#4. A woman reasons by telegraph, and his [a man's] stage-coach reasoning cannot keep pace with hers.

Mary Edwards Walker

#5. 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