Running Away Quotes

• I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Motivational, Sports, Running

  FaceBook post by Nadia Comaneci from Apr 24, 2014

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• Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Change, Running

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• Run my dear,
  From anything
  That may not strengthen
  Your precious budding wings.

  Hafez

  Running, Wings, May

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• Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Running, Spiritual

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• You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

  Brad Warner

  Running, Situation

  Brad Warner (2009). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.71, New World Library

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• You can't run away from yourself

  Bob Marley

  Running, Weakness, One Tree Hill Love

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• Running away was easy; not knowing what to do next was the hard part.

  Glenda Millard

  Running, Knowing, Next

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• Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Courage, Mean

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Realizing, Chasing

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• You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

  Nick Nolte

  Running, Mean, Dark

  "Nick Nolte And James Coburn" by Andrew Boorstyn and Thelma Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape.

  Alan Watts

  Running, Pain, Fighting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

  Satish Kumar

  Running, Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Escaping, Marine Corps

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Running, Weakness, Strength In Adversity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Running, Sweet

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

  Edward Thorndike

  Running, Military, Another Day

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• Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Necks, Chasing

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• To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wise, Running, Anxiety

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.253

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• The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

  Robin Sharma

  Beautiful, Running, Fear

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• Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

  Lena Dunham

  Running, Life Lesson, Self Reflection

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• Running away will never make you free.

  Kenny Loggins

  Running, Freedom, Romance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't conquer reality by running away from it.

  Og Mandino

  Running, Reality, Conquer

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• When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Morning, Shining

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• Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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