Long Way To Go Quotes:

We have a long way to go, some tough issues ahead of us, and I'm sure there will be some obstacles in the path ... But the good faith effort that's being put into this absolutely is encouraging to me and gives me hope.

- Dick Durbin

source: "Harry Reid On Immigration: I’m Committed To Getting Bipartisan Plan ‘Over The Finish Line’" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

topic: Issues, Giving, Long, Good Faith, Long Way

I've got a long way to go. I'm not in a hurry.

- Freddy Adu

topic: Long, Way, Long Way, Long Way To Go

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

- Barack Obama

topic: Long, Not Good Enough, Progress, Long Way, Long Way To Go

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

- Wyclef Jean

source: Source: djbooth.net

topic: Long, Way, Accomplished, Long Way To Go

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

- John Cornyn

topic: Believe, Long, Way, Long Way, Long Way To Go

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Long, Profound, Way, Long Way, Long Way To Go

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

- Gabrielle Giffords

source: "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope". Book by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, November 15, 2011.

topic: Grateful, Hard Work, Long, Long Way To Go, Trying So Hard

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

- Kevin Durant

topic: Basketball, Thinking, Long, Long Way To Go

When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God’s word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you’ve got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you’ve already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you’re not what you used to be.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Thinking, Long, Thank God, Long Way To Go

I can be a much better player. I've got a long ways to go.

- Lauren Jackson

topic: Player, Long, Way, Long Way To Go

Let us be patient with one another, And even patient with ourselves. We have a long, long way to go. So let us hasten along the road, The road of human tenderness and generosity. Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.

- Emily Greene Balch

topic: Dark, Hands, Long, Long Way To Go

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

- Maynard Webb

topic: Long, Perception, World, Long Way, Long Way To Go

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

- Ralph Strangis

topic: Long, Acting, Way, Stage Acting, Long Way To Go

We’re not living in an age of no hope. We are living in the age of choice, which is much scarier. It means that what we do every day matters, which is always a bummer for humans. But it’s a great thing and it’s inspirational and we need to remember that. We have a long way to go and not a long time to get there.

- Ezra Miller

topic: Mean, Long, Choices, Long Way To Go, Bummer

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

- Sharon Stone

topic: Flower, Long, People, Long Way To Go

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Basketball, Boys, Race, Long Way To Go

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.85, Metropolitan Books

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Long, Repression, Regression

My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.

- Chinua Achebe

source: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Jobs, Book, Mean, Long Way To Go

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

- Bev Perdue

source: Source: lasentinel.net

topic: Powerful, Long, Decision, Long Way, Long Way To Go

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

- Bill Lipinski

topic: Bridges, Long, Needs, Mass Transit, Long Way To Go

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Long, People, World, Meritocracy, Long Way To Go

While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

source: "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

topic: Long, Democracy, Facts, Long Way To Go

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

- Michael Pollan

topic: Simple, Thinking, Long, Long Way To Go

Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Winning, Long, Machines, Long Way To Go

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Beautiful, Atheist, Believe, Long Way To Go

Because our Father in Heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ, are perfect, our dearest aspiration is to become like Them and eventually achieve the perfection that is possible and promised, even though each of us has such a long way to go.

- Cecil O. Samuelson

topic: Jesus, Father, Son, Long Way To Go

While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.

- Dacia Maraini

source: "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

topic: Attitude, Thinking, Rights, Things Have Changed, Long Way To Go

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

- Sue Kelly

topic: Our Veterans, Long, Promise, Long Way To Go, Great Progress

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

- Shahrukh Khan

topic: Angel, Long, People, Long Way To Go

I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

- Shahrukh Khan

topic: Angel, Long, People, Long Way To Go

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

- Ted Rall

topic: Writing, Skills, Long, Graphic Novels, Graphic

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

- Marcia Cross

topic: Baby, Two, Long, Long Way To Go

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for.

- Joichi Ito

topic: Believe, Bridges, Voice, Long Way To Go, Building Bridges

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

- Lara Flynn Boyle

topic: Thinking, Long, Way, Long Way To Go

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

- Daniel Radcliffe

source: "Daniel Radcliffe On Set Interview HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2010.

topic: Funny, Mean, Thinking, Long Way To Go

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

- Tom Brady

topic: Play, Long, Guy, Steve Young, Long Way To Go

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

- Martin O'Malley

topic: Jobs, Moving, Long, Job Growth, Moving In The Right Direction

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.

- Jack Kerouac

source: Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.109, BookBaby

topic: Believe, Thinking, Long, Long Way To Go, Stellar

Grant us safe lodging, and holy rest,” Mrs. Grogan was saying, “and peace at last.” Amen, thought Wilbur Larch, the Saint of St. Cloud’s, who was seventy-something, and an ether addict, and who felt that he’d come a long way and still had a long way to go.

- John Irving

topic: Clouds, Long, Saint, Long Way To Go

We have a long way to go to understand that web analytics is a thinking man's tool, not a solution unto itself. On the bright side, 73% of those surveyed might still figure out that web analytics can help them drive actionable insights one day.

- Jim Sterne

topic: Men, Thinking, Long, Long Way To Go, Thinking Man

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

- Dorothy Height

source: "Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights Ally Dorothy Height" by Irene Monroe, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2010.

topic: Rights, Long, Together, Long Way To Go

Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

- Irshad Manji

topic: Thinking, Long, Isms, Long Way To Go

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.

- Steve Irwin

topic: Long, Way, Wildlife, Long Way To Go

One-day cricket is a very important part of our play. We've got a long way to go until the next World Cup and for us it's one ruthless game after another where we can play well.

- Matthew Hayden

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Games, Play, Long, Long Way To Go

Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

topic: Work, Women, Team, Long Way To Go, Diverse Teams

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that ,but I've got a long way to go.

- Max Lucado

topic: Morning, Prayer, Thinking, Morning Prayer, Rambling

Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

- Jennifer Granholm

topic: America, Long, Today, Long Way To Go

If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood - if it makes you sick, you've got a long way to go, baby.

- Germaine Greer

source: "The Female Eunuch". Book by Germaine Greer, 1970.

topic: Baby, Thinking, Blood, Long Way To Go, Menstruation

Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

- Rosie Batty

topic: Believe, Epidemics, Doors, Long Way To Go, Family Violence

It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.

- Dana Bash

source: "McConnell: Race relations have 'gotten better' under Obama" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2014.

topic: Country, Running, Long, Long Way To Go