Inspirational Running Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

“If the hill has its own name, then it’s probably a pretty tough hill.”
– Marty Stern

“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.”
– Michael Johnson

“Running should be a lifelong activity. Approach it patiently and intelligently, and it will reward you for a long, long time.”
– Michael Sargent

“The greatest danger to most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
– Michelangelo

“Running long and hard is an ideal antidepressant, since it’s hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time. Also, there are those hours of clearheadedness that follow a long run.”
– Monte Davis

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
– Muhammad Ali

“One late afternoon, after swimming in a lake, he began to jog around to ease his chill. Soon enough he found himself running for the sheer exhilaration of it, across the moor and toward the coast. The sky filled with crimson clouds, and as he ran a light rain started to fall. With the sun warming his back, a rainbow appeared in front of him, and he seemed to run toward it. Along the coast the rhythm of the water breaking against the rocks eased him, and he circled back to where he had begun. Cool, wet air filled his lungs. Running into the sun now, he had trouble seeing the ground underneath his feet, but still he rushed forward, alive with the movement. Finally spent as the sun disappeared from the horizon, he tumbled down a light hill and rested on his back, his feet bleeding, but feeling rejuvenated. He needed to reconnect to the joy of running, to get away from the tyranny of the track.”
– Neil Bascomb

“In order to succeed, we must first believe we can.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis

“There’s nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve.”
– Og Mandino

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about.”
– PattiSue Plumer

“Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about.”
– PattySue Plumer

“Ask yourself: ‘Can I give more?’. The answer is usually: ‘Yes’.”
– Paul Tergat

“Run hard, be strong, think big!”
– Percy Cerutty

“You only grow as a human being if you’re outside your comfort zone.”
– Percy Cerutty

“Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?’”
– Peter Maher

“When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t.”
– Peter Snell

“If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.”
– Priscilla Welch

“Self-trust is the essence of heroism.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.”
– Richard O’Brien

“The woods are lovely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
– Robert Frost

“If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.”
– Robert Pirsig

“Everything I know about life, I learned it from running.”
– Ruben Toledo Rosado

“I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That’s real greatness!”
– Ryan Hall

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

“Remember the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running.”
– Sarah Condor

“Running is one of the best solution to a clear mind.”
– Sasha Azevedo

“I run because it’s my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I’m going where I’m going and I’m already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise… it’s a consistent reward for victory!”
– Sasha Azevedo

“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves…The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.”
– Sir Roger Bannister

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