Slow Tortoise Quotes & Sayings

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it. — John Wayne

In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname 'tortoise' because he's making slow, steady progress. Though I think the bigger story here is that compared to George, Jeb is the slow one. — Jimmy Fallon

People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They're no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail. — Tom Waits

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise — Robert Lloyd

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives. One only has to think of the example of the tortoise for proof of this theory from the animal world. — Tom Hodgkinson

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character. — Richard Overy

Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart. — J.M. Coetzee

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. — Toby Keith

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. — Henry David Thoreau

The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it. — Carl Honore

The sun spread on the horizon, bleeding colour like a broken yolk. — Christine Piper

Hope has a place in a lover's heart. — Enya

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand.
Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation
teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience. — Terry Tempest Williams

As children, we were given a choice between the talented but erratic hare and the plodding but steady tortoise. The lesson was supposed to be that slow and steady wins the race. But, really, did any of us ever want to be the tortoise? No, we just wanted to be a less foolish hare. We wanted to be swift as the wind and a bit more strategic - say, not taking quite so many snoozes before the finish line. After all, everyone knows you have to show up in order to win. The story of the tortoise and the hare, in trying to put forward the power of effort, gave effort a bad name. It reinforced the image that effort is for the plodders and suggested that in rare instances, when talented people dropped the ball, the plodder could sneak through. — Carol S. Dweck