A Quote by Damon Runyon

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Damon Runyon

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Always Battle Bet Nor Race Strong Swift Way

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Damon Runyon
American - Journalist
October 4, 1880 - December 10, 1946

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Cybill Shepherd

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

Damon Runyon

The race doesn't always belong to the swift nor the battle to the strong. It belongs rather to those who run the race, who stay the course and who fight the good fight.

Carl Yastrzemski

Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

Solomon

The race belongs not only to the swift and strong but to those who keep on running

Zoe Koplowitz

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

Henry Van Dyke

I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.

Garrison Keillor

There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.