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
Submitted by Janelle V.
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
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.–Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain on Living Life
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
John Berryman on Overcoming
We must travel in the direction of our fear.–John Berryman
Helen Hayes on Ageing
The hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70. –Helen Hayes
Joan Benoit Samuelson On Running
Running is 80 percent mental.–Joan Benoit Samuelson
Albert Camus on Freedom
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better–Albert Camus
George Meredith on Competing
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. –George Meredith
M. Kathleen Casey on Pain
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. –M. Kathleen Casey
Frank Shorter on Marathoning
You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming. – Frank Shorter
W.C. Fields on …Success?
Mr. Fields would have made a lousy runner.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again. Then give up. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C. Fields
Redd Foxx on Health
All I have to say to Mr. Foxx is that “someday” will be a lot farther off for some of us!
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.” – Redd Foxx
Joan Rivers on Jogging
I think Joan’s been hangin’ with the wrong runners!
“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.” – Joan Rivers
George Carlin on Fast vs. Slow
Do you think George may have stumbled on the difference between elite versus non-elite runners?
“Have you ever noticed? Anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin
Zen for Runners
“The obstacle is the path.” – Zen Saying
Roger Bannister on the Impossible
“No one can say, ‘You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.’ The human spirit is indomitable.” —Roger Bannister
Bruce Barton on Achievements
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” —Bruce Barton
William James on Second Winds
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. – William James
Charles Kingsley on Happiness
“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. —Charles Kingsley
Matthew Campbell on Character
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
Matthew Campbell (1888-1939)
Matthew Campbell (1888-1939)
Tom Fleming on Training
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. —Tom Fleming
2 Samuel 18:23
“But whatever happens,” he said,”I will run.” – 2 Samuel 18:23
Top 10 Non-running Quotes for Runners
I have always been an avid collector of inspirational quotations. Through my journey, I have found many great running quotes (that’s another article) that describe the many challenges runners face and their dedication to the sport. I have also found many non-running quotes that apply very well to running. Here are my favorite 10 non-running quotes for runners.
- Life is not a matter of being dealt good cards, but of being able to play a poor hand well. —Unknown
- Everything you do is your legacy. —Aaron Douglas Trimble
- Blessings are placed within our reach, but they are not placed within our hands. —Unknown
- No wonder experience is the best teacher. It has to teach us things we don’t want to learn. —Unknown
- Every man dies, but not every man truly lives. —William Wallace
- The crime is not to avoid failure, the crime is to not give triumph a chance. —H. Weldon
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. —George Bernard Shaw
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained. —William Shakespeare
- It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. —Confucius
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. —Henry David Thoreau
Christopher Reeve on Heroes
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
- Christopher Reeve
- Christopher Reeve
Joseph Addison on Success
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
Aaron Trimble on Marathons
“It is very difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon.” – Aaron Douglas Trimble
Aaron Trimble on The Perfect Run
“Nothing’s better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.” – Aaron Douglas Trimble
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