Running Quotes
“Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” – Dean Karnazes, Runner
Weldon On Triumph
The crime is not to avoid failure, the crime is to not give triumph a chance. —H. Weldon
Gaining Experience
No wonder experience is the best teacher. It has to teach us things we don’t want to learn. —Unknown
Ralph Waldo Emerson On Peace
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edward Eggleston On Persistence
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
Edward Eggleston
Bruce Barton on Life
When you are through changing, you are through. –Bruce Barton
Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr. on Life
Death tugs at my ear and says, “Live, I am coming.”
–Oliver Wendall Holmes
–Oliver Wendall Holmes
Margaret Lee Runbeck On Happiness
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
Goethe On Action
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it.
Action has magic, grace and power in it.– Goethe
Action has magic, grace and power in it.– Goethe
Doug Larson On Action
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. — Doug Larson
Okakura Kakuzo On Greatness
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.–Okakura Kakuzo
Steve Prefontaine On Racing
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways as they’re capable of understanding.
– Steve Prefontaine
– Steve Prefontaine
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George Bernard Shaw on Living
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. –George Bernard Shaw
Walter Elliott on Perseverance
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.– Walter Elliott
Sugar Ray Leonard on Winning
You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win. –Sugar Ray Leonard
Donald Douglas on Obstacles
It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of man’s hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith.–Donald Douglas
Rudy Guiliani On Leadership
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
–Rudy Guiliani
–Rudy Guiliani
Jim Goodwin on Life
The impossible is often untried. –Jim Goodwin
Buckminster Fuller on Training
Don’t oppose forces. Use them. –Buckminster Fuller
Calvin Coolidge on Success
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.–Calvin Coolidge
Martin Luther King Jr. on Life
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.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Alan Steinberg on Winning
We go from whining infant to waddling toddler to gold-medal sprinter partly by nature, but mostly by will and determination and intelligence.
Ovid on Character
In play we reveal what kind of people we are. –Ovid
Friedrich Nietzsche on Training
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Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.–Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain on Living Life
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.–Mark Twain



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