Inspirational Running Quotes

There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and worse. Others will come along who can run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and you will be forgotten. Your winning moment is dated to die. ~ Charlie Higson

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself. ~ Tanya Tucker

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic. ~ Ron Clarke

A star can win any game; a team can win every game. ~ Jack Ramsay

I cannot have survival as my only goal. That would be too boring. My goal is to come back in my best running form. It is good for me to have that goal; it will help me. ~ Ludmila Engquist

Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles. ~ Dagny Scott Barrios

Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death. ~ Frederick Lenz

Ninety-eight percent of success is in the head and the heart. ~ Cathy Ferguson

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. ~ Brene Brown

A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability. ~ Leeman Bennett

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~ Steve Jobs

You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past. ~ Elizabeth Jane Howard

If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy. ~ Amby Burfoot

Well I was born to run, to get ahead of the rest. And all that I wanted was to be the best Just to feel free and be someone I was born to be fast, I was born to run . ~ Emmylou Harris

Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do. ~ Percy Cerutty

The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans. ~ Noureddine Morceli

Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's turned the hourglass over and the sand is running through. Will you be liberated or will you die? The only way you can beat death is liberation. ~ Frederick Lenz

I always thought of running as just dancing forward. ~ Tom Hiddleston

Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road. ~ Ryan Shay

If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. ~ Steve Prefontaine

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon. ~ Fred Lebow

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit. ~ Michael Beckwith

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational. ~ Franz Stampfl

She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor. ~ Jodi Rell

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy. ~ Plato

Movement is the essence of life. ~ Bernd Heinrich

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. ~ Plato

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime. ~ Bill Rodgers

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man ~ Rollo May

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. ~ Marcus Aurelius

It's not about speed and gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. ~ Amby Burfoot

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.
We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human. ~ John Bingham

Music is my life. Music runs through my veins. Music inspires me. Music is a part of me. Music is all around us. Music soothes me. Music gives me hope when I lose faith. Music comforts me. Music is my refuge. ~ Demi Lovato

Seeking Why run around sprinkling holy water? There's an ocean inside you, and when you're ready you'll drink. ~ Kabir

I am too tired, even to be happy. ~ Gelindo Bordin

Running has never failed to give me great end results, and that's why I keep coming back for more! ~ Sasha Azevedo

The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive. ~ George A. Sheehan

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged. ~ Russell Simmons

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. ~ Joan Chen

One more stage, one more limo, one more run for your life. ~ John Lennon

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty. ~ Frederick Lenz

Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day's canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds. ~ Dagny Scott Barrios

The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average
though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success. ~ R.J. Palacio

Don't follow the crowd. The crowd doesn't get there. They just run round and around in a crazy race. It never ends. ~ Frederick Lenz

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. ~ Dean Karnazes

Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way. ~ Jack Foster

The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me. ~ Leroy Burrell

The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon. ~ Robert De Castella

Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit. ~ Jack Edmonds

Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN! ~ Ernie J Zelinski

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.' ~ Michael N. Castle

Winning isn't about finishing in first place. It isn't about beating the others. It is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming your body, your limitations, and your fears. Winning means surpassing yourself and turning your dreams into reality. ~ Kilian Jornet

Arrogant S.O.B.s run the world. A performer can never have too much self-confidence. The best in every field are likely to strike most people as irrationally confident, but that's how they got to the top. ~ John Eliot

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints. ~ Shonda Rhimes

Today, I run for pure, absolute joy. ~ Lopez Lomong

I work out for my head as much as I do for my body. I'm a thinker. A lot of my ideas come to me more easily when I am running. That is why I like to run in the morning, when there are no distractions ... Now some of my best ideas are born on the run. ~ Grete Waitz

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it. ~ Duncan Hines

There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable. ~ J.R. Ward

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. ~ Marcus Aurelius

There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life. ~ Frederick Lenz

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. ~ Jim Butcher

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ~ Dogen

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. ~ Chuck Knox

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory. ~ George A. Sheehan

Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running. ~ Amby Burfoot

So as soon as I tell myself I'm the first man ever to be dropped into the world, and as soon as I take that first flying leap into the frosty grass of an early morning when even birds haven't the heart to whistle, I get to thinking, and that's what I like. I go my rounds in a dream, turning at lane or footpath corners without knowing I'm turning, leaping brooks without knowing they're there, and shouting good morning to the early cow-milker without seeing him. It's a treat being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do. ~ Alan Sillitoe

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation ... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run. ~ George Matthew Adams

Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far. ~ Scott Adams

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. ~ Roger Bannister

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better. ~ Gil Hodges

If you put down a good, solid foundation and build one room after another, pretty soon you have a house. You build in your speedwork, your pace and increase your ability to run races and think races out. Then it's possible to run the way we do. ~ Rod Dixon

Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome. ~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from. ~ Charles M. Schulz

Don't try to make any identity of yourself but search for your inner individuality and let it explore. ~ Nitin Yaduvanshi

Love and let flowers of peace bloom in your heart. ~ Debasish Mridha

Inspiration drives us to be more than we are by allowing us to see all that we could be. ~ Benjamin Thompson

Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx. ~ John Maynard Keynes

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be ... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Sometimes Satan isn't busy- we're just being lazy. ~ Bradley Vinson

The road to the heart is not a long, linear path, but this turning. There is no race or competition, just me and God going deeper, carving a canyon to the soul. ~ Anna White

I would never run for president. ~ Sylvester Stallone

There is nowhere that God is not. ~ Susan Shumsky

[When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower. ~ Mohamed El-Erian

What you leave behind says as much about you as what you bring along. ~ Jacquelyn Middleton

I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth. ~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

If you become a singing bird, I will be the listening sky so that I will never miss your song. ~ Debasish Mridha

'Generally, the rain is the thing which makes everything in my life nicer than it is. Love, sleep, long walks with beloved... I'm just wondering, why it's not raining anytime when I have dinner with my mother… ~ Amer Jaganjac

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is earned. ~ Debasish Mridha

I wanted to become immortal. So I wrote a book. ~ T.M. Williams

When you are born, you cried while others laughed around you, likewise make others cry when you are dead. ~ Robin S. Sharma

The Robertsons' goal was never to be known as TV stars (except maybe Uncle Si, but, hey, he's nuts - in a good way). In fact, I wasn't even convinced the show would actually happen until I looked out my window one morning and saw cameramen running through my brother Willie's front yard like bees swarming to a hive. I'll never forget overhearing what one of the cameramen whispered to a technician on the first day of filming. He was sad that the show would probably tear our family apart. I remember thinking to myself, He hasn't met my family. He didn't know that the only kind of stardom my family and I are interested in is the lifestyle in Christ as described in Philippians 2:15 - 16: "Children of God . . . [that] shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life. ~ Jase Robertson

Courage is active faith. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You may not like what's happening, but just accept it, and let's try to live together. Even if you feel angry, let's be patient and endure, let's try to live together. I've realized that this is the only way forward. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift. ~ Angelica Hopes

Do something extraordinary, something world changing with your life. Barring that, at least do something that brings you joy." - the dragon Furidor ~ Kai Herbertz

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species. ~ Warren Ellis