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

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.

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

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.

A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

It was all so far away - there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and I could work as I pleased.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.

I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

I enjoy the quiet life.

Well, it's a nice quiet time for Iron Maiden, and I'll be releasing a new solo album next year, so this is a really good time for the managing out my solo career, which is quite well.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I live sort of in the country and I like that. It's very quiet, it's beautiful.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.