Inspirational Running Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Stacy Jones

“This is what really matters: running. This is where I know where I am.”
– Steve Jones

“You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“I’m going to work so that it’s a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“To give anything less than your best is the sacrifice the gift.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected by in as many ways as they’re capable of understanding.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“Running gives me confidence.”
– Steve Prefontaine

“Even if you fall flat on your face at least you are moving forward.”
– Sue Luke

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
– T.S. Eliot

“You don’t get to choose when opportunity is going to knock, so you better be prepared for it when it does.”
– Ted Anderson

“When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you’d never see otherwise.”
– Tom Brokaw

“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.”
– Tom Fleming

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard…is what makes it great!”
– Tom Hanks

“We all need goals. Life is hard to live without one.”
– Tory Baucum

“No one ever drowned in sweat.”
– Unknown

“The race does not always go to the swift, but to the ones who keep running.”
– Unknown

“Dream the impossible, do the incredible.”
– Unknown

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
– Unknown

“Spirit…has fifty times the strength and staying power of brawn and muscle.”
– Unknown

“If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. A winner is somebody who gave his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn’t mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means they’ve given it their best. That’s a winner.”
– Walter Payton

“If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.”
– Wid Matthews

“We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go.”
– Will Rogers

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner

“Bid me run and I will strive with things impossible.”
– William Shakespeare

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