Long Quotes

Time is long but life is short.

Always invest for the long term.

The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

That's all any of us are - amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

Now, I tell you, these... things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long life.

It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

We all have a short period of time on this earth-We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're going to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young.

Overnight success stories take a long time.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

A light heart lives long.

The night of the long knives.