Great Running Quotes - Page 3

• Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Running, Witty, Time

  "If - " st. 4 (1910)

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• How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races?

  Steve Prefontaine

  Children, Kids, Winning

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• Top results are achieved only through pain. But eventually you like this pain.

  Juha Vaatainen

  Pain, Results, Distance Running

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mountain, Speed

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Impossible, Strive

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.

  Ken Doherty

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous: 2 percent joyful participation, 98 percent dedication! It's a tough formula. Getting out in the forest in the biting cold and the flattening heat, and putting in kilometer after kilometer.

  Robert de Castella

  Running, Dedication, People

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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• If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Believe, Clear Goals

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• There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Joe Strummer

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

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• The gun goes off and everthing changes... the world changes... and nothing else really matters.

  PattiSue Plumer

  Motivational, Running, Gun

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• You shall become the person you are.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jogging, Distance Running, Concentration

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

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• A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

  Molly Ringwald

  Depression, Role Models, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, Creative

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• Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

  John Bingham

  Running, Moving, Belief

  "Running for the PR" by Dylan Armajani, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Children, Animal

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• Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Live Life, Endurance

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 15, 2007.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

  Jules Renard

  Running, Motivation, Business

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• If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• 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

  Running, Race, Appreciate

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