The Tortoise And The Hare Quotes

#1. It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

Megan Whalen Turner

#2. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

Northrop Frye

#3. I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.

Warren Buffett

#4. One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...

Clement Greenberg

#5. Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.

Charles Warren Stoddard

#6. Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent.

Thomas Bernhard

#7. I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.

Gina Carano

#8. And good luck to you, tortoise," whispered the hare, leaning in close. "And just so you know - nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I'll deny it - but I'm not really a hare. I'm a rabbit." This wasn't true - the hare just said it to fuck with him.

B.J. Novak

#9. Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoise
or hare in life!

Lucas Remmerswaal

#10. Nostalgia is a fragile and tender anguish, basically different, more intimate, more human than the other pains we had endured till then [ ... ] Nostalgia is a limpid and clean pain, but demanding; it permeates every minute of the day, permits no other thoughts and induces a need for escape.

Primo Levi

#11. The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

Amy Grant

#12. What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#13. I've got things I have to do in fiction to sort of register my existence, before I kick the bucket, but it will never be my living and I know it. Plus it never moved fast enough for me and lacked cut and thrust. I need to be in the real show.

William Monahan

#14. The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.

Wendell Berry

#15. You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal - "the finishing line"!

Lucas Remmerswaal

#16. I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

Tana French

#17. If the hare makes too many missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.

Paul Kalanithi

#18. The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

N. T. Wright

#19. The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

Taiichi Ohno

#20. You can't throw us into space," yelled Ford, "we're trying to write a book." "Resistance is useless!" shouted the Vogon guard back at him. It was the first phrase he'd learned when he joined the Vogon Guard Corps.

Douglas Adams

#21. We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Joshua Chamberlain

#22. We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

Charlie Munger

#23. Hi, Miss Alice
What kind of dreams do you see
with your eyes of glass?
Do they fascinate you?

Kanon Wakeshima

#24. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Robert Lloyd

#25. The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

Steven Erikson

#27. Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

#28. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

John Major

#29. In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

#30. They who have health have hope; and they who have hope, have everything.

Maya Angelou