Robert W. Service Quotes

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

Robert W. Service

• Winning
• Race
• Quiet
• Steady
• Lifelong

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• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • Earth
  • Day
  • Worry

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

  

  Iman
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Muslim

• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Language

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • World
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

  

  Emilie Autumn Liddell
  • Winning
  • Scary
  • Brave

• Now, I'm not going to be misquoted on this like I have numerous times before, so I'll be quite clear. I've never said hitler was my hero, just that if he had focused on more than one race he would have had the right idea. Try to turn that one against me.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Ideas
  • Hero
  • Race

• Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside.

  

  Buddhadasa
  • Pain
  • Winning
  • Birth

• March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Don't feel bad if you did not know that. I didn't, either, until someone recently slapped a picture of a green ribbon and a message wishing me a 'Happy CP Awareness Month' on my Facebook page. I always thought March was Women's History Month.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Women
  • Bad
  • History

• When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

  

  Martin Millar
  • Good

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

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Winning
  • Race
  • Quiet