20 Turtle Quotes and Sayings & Sea Turtle Quotes

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20 Turtle Quotes and Sayings & Sea Turtle Quotes – These tortoiseshell quotes teach us many life lessons, such as determination and perseverance.

As children we learned from reading Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Rabbit” that being the fastest is not always the most important factor in life. Sometimes slow but steady wins the race.

Let’s take a look at some of the best quotes and sayings that highlight the best qualities of a turtle.

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1.) A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.
Korean Proverb

2.) Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
Ajahn Chah

3.) The tortoise stores its wisdom in his shell.
Unknown

4.) Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Plato

5.) 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

6.) Wealth comes like a turtle and goes away like a gazelle.
Arabic Proverb

7.) Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
Kurt Vonnegut

8.) Trusting in wealth is like looking for feathers on turtles.
Senegalese Proverb

9.) Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley

10.) But us, turtles, why must we stand alone against the forces of evil?
Donatello – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

11.) Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
Bruce Feiler

12.) Try to be like the turtle at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland

13.) ‘Now you see,’ said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, ‘why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else’s joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.’
Amy Tan

14.) Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

20 Turtle Quotes and Sayings & Sea Turtle Quotes

15.) Pride of one’s work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. Low self-esteem is not modesty. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness — one that I believe is found in all living creatures.
Mary Alice

16.) On my door there’s a cartoon of two turtles. One says, ‘Sometimes I’d like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it. ‘The other turtle says, ‘I’m afraid God might ask me the same question.
Peter Kreeft

17.) In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.
Jonathan Safran Foer

20 Turtle Quotes and Sayings & Sea Turtle Quotes

18.) Love makes even a turtle smile.
Henrietta Newton

19.) Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.
Ernest Hemingway