Inspirational Running Quotes - Page 3

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

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Mean, Years

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• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Track, Aviation

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

  Johnny Gray

  Sports, School, Hockey

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• Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Running, Distance, Track

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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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• If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Winning, Race

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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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• The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

  Sebastian Coe

  Running, World, Nine

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Giving Up, Fighting, Things In Life

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• The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

  Robert Frost

  Tattoo, Running, Taken

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• The marathon can humble you.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Humble, Boston Marathon

  Bill Rodgers, Matthew Shepatin (2013). “Marathon Man: My 26.2-Mile Journey from Unknown Grad Student to the Top of the Running World”, p.274, Macmillan

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• If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Faith, Sports, Running

  "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

  Henry James

  Art, Philosophy, History

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

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• The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Running, Positive Thinking

  "The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…".

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

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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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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• Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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