Edith Hamilton Quotes

In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.

One of the greatest provisions for people like me, to be honest with you - I give up a lot when I run.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Short on money, long on hope

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

I do think it's important to be honest about your feelings in a long term relationship because it's totally human to be attracted to other people. It's just about what you do about that attraction.

The only way out is to go through

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.

Under perfect competition, in the long run no company makes an economic profit.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.