Quotes About Long-term

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over.

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

Choose the option that will give you long term happiness instead of the option that will only give you temporary pleasure.

To integrate life and work successfully, honor what your commitment is towards life and what you want over the long arch of your life and career.

I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

I didn't know that depression isn't a mood. It's a set of conditions that cause a whole series of thoughts and behaviors to happen over a long period of time, often things that are wildly different from one another.

Core participants tend to focus on transactions rather than investing in the long-term effort to build sustainable, trust-based relationships on the edge.

This was the power of Andrew Carnegie's legacy. He had used his wealth to set up over 2,000 public libraries across North America. Three generations after his death, they were continuing to pay dividends. These new American citizens were fortunate that Carnegie had thought long-term. For the Taiwanese boys, Carnegie had created the hardware, and their mother the software. This bode well for their assimilation and success in America.

The only thing we wanted our young organization to give was an opportunity. We would say to children and to their families: If you are willing to work hard and make sacrifices and think long term, then Room to Read is the best organization for you. If you're looking for a handout, then you should look elsewhere.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Sometimes winning the battle doesn't mean you are winning the war.

In life short cuts and the easy way only leads to longer roads that turn into dead ends and harder situations.