Outrun Quotes

• Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

  Sophocles

  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

  Hosea Ballou

  Charity, Divinity, Divine

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• Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

  Abe Gubegna

  Running, Athletic, Matter

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• We have guided missiles and misguided men.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Science

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational Life, Mean, Ends

  Strength to Love ch. 7 (1963)

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• Ain't no man can outrun his fate.

  Esi Edugyan

  Fate, Men

  Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.9, Macmillan

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  Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.

  Julie Isphording

  Running, Long, Joy

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• There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.

  Jim Davis

  Needs

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• As if you could outrun me.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ifs

  Stephenie Meyer (2016). “Twilight Tenth Anniversary/Life and Death Dual Edition”, p.208, Hachette UK

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• My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.

  Priest Holmes

  People, Missing, May

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  A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  Ovid

  Motivational, Running, Horse

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Deeds, Ashamed

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Horse, Animal

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• administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!

  Mary Parker Follett

  Purpose, Want, Facts

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• The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Mind, Tongue, Should

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• The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

  Lisa Alther

  France

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry.

  John Burroughs

  Wind, Storm, Demon

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Indoor studies”

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• With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It is no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you simply have to run faster then others to survive

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Running, Race, Knowing

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• I'm pretty sure I could outrun the whole Dallas Cowboys team.

  Adrian Peterson

  Team, Cowboy, Nfl

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• Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

  Wendell Phillips

  Sex, Real, School

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.244

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• The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

  Martial

  Hands, Done, Tongue

  Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.630

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• It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sight, Imagination, Sound

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

  Aesop

  Reality, Anticipation, Mere

  Aesop (2016). “Aesop's Fables”, p.57, Aesop

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