Robert W. Service Quotes

Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.

Heav'n is not always got by running.

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

Patience wins the race.

A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Steadiness is coming up short 19 times and succeeding the twentieth.

You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.

I think my strength is to do a take all the way through. I am definitely not someone who can do a sprint. Maybe I am not that smart, but it takes me a while to find the moment, and I like to be pushed toward it.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Slow but steady wins the race.

Plodding wins the race.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.