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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 868 |
| AUTHOR: | Sidney Justin Harris (1917–86) |
| QUOTATION: | An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | SIDNEY J. HARRIS, in his column “Thoughts at Large,” for the Chicago Sun-Times. Reprinted in Ann Landers’s column, The Washington Post, November 12, 1979, p. B7. |
| SUBJECTS: | Idealists |
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