Inspirational Runner Quotes - Page 2

There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

Ranulph Fiennes

Running, Adventure, Weather

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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

Motivational, Success, Softball

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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Change, Running, Rainy Day

"The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Sam Snead

Running, Golf, Track

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I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought.

Arthur Blank

Running, Inner Strength, Might

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Lou Holtz

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

Jesse Owens

Inspirational, Motivational, Running

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

Jacqueline Gareau

Motivational, Fitness, Running

"Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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A coach can be like oasis in the desert of a runner's lost enthusiasm.

Ken Doherty

Running, Oasis, Desert

Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

Alan Sillitoe

Running, Soul, World

Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.8, Open Road Media

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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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Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Henry James

Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schulz

Witty, Fitness Motivational, Exercise

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I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.

Uta Pippig

Beautiful, Running, Opponents

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Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

John Farrington

Running, Pain, Cutting

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It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being.

Marion Irvine

Motivational, Running, Beach

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Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

Steve Prefontaine

Waiting, Hey, Want

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As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

Kipchoge Keino

Motivational, Running, Fun

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If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.

Roger Bannister

Running, Men, Blame

Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.41, The History Press

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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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