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Even More Quotes for Runners

Did you need more quotes in your life? No? Well, I hate to break it to you, but you’re getting a bunch. I collect quotes like how single women my age collect cats. I can’t get enough of them.

There’s something about a good thought provoking quote that can change not just your perspective, but shift it as well. It’s one thing to be inspired by a quote, but it’s a total different thing to be changed by one. Something that’s happened to me many times in my life.

In addition to keeping a database of quotes for running, I hoard quotes for inspiration and motivation — socially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I might share some of quotes on my personal blog Josherwalla.com sometime later, but for here — this is all about running, fitness and health.

I use many of these quotes also to make into memes for the Trails & Pavement Instagram page. So make sure to follow the page for some great running related quotes and more.

Anyways, without any further adieu, here are some more running quotes …

“As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.” Joan Benoit Samuelson

“Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable.” Kara Goucher

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” Haruki Murakami

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” Les Brown

“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” Jeffrey Gitomer

“Action is eloquence.” William Shakespeare

“You didn’t beat me. You merely finished in front of me.” Hal Higdon

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” William Arthur Ward

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” Edmund Hillary

“It’s very hard at the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually, you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.” George Sheehan

“The biggest mistake an athlete can make is to be afraid of making one.” L. Ron Hubbard

“Running is real and relatively simple … but it ain’t easy.” Mark Will-Weber

“We all have bad days and bad workouts, when running gets ugly, when split times seem slow, when you wonder why you started. It will pass.” Hal Higdon

“Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end.” Kim Cowart

“Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don’t have to rush through it.” Jim Fixx

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” Marcus Aurelius

“I’m not as fast or flexible as I once was, but running keeps me young” Nicole DeBoom

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No Matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett

“Winning doesn’t always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.” Meb Keflezighi

“It’s a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.” Alan Sillitoe

“Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” Amby Burfoot

“The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running.” Fauja Singh

“I’ve learned that it’s what you do with the miles, rather than how many you’ve run.” Rod DeHaven

“Our doubts are our traitors and make us lose the good we oft might get by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare

“What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.” James Dyson

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” Bruce Lee

“What is the source of my success? I think it’s a combination of consistency and balance.” Mark Allen

“Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about.” PattiSue Plumer

“The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.” Bill Bowerman

“For me, races are the celebration of my training.” Dan Browne

“God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.” Billy Mills

“There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.” Dean Karnazes

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryin

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” Marcus Aurelius

“Running is the greatest meaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” Oprah Winfrey

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ursula K. Le Guin

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” Dean Karnazes

“Happiness lies, first of all, in health.” George William Curtis

“The pain of running relieves the pain of living.” Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.” John Bingham

“Success doesn’t come to you; you go to it.” T. Scott McLeod

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” Napoleon Hill

“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” George F. Kennan

“This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” William Shakespeare

“Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.” Wayne Huizenga

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” Maya Angelou

“Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It’s a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.” Auliq Ice

“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other … but to be with each other.” Christopher McDougall

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” Henry Ford

“Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.” Bill Bowerman

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt

“That’s the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life is.” Kara Goucher

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” Earl Nightingale

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” Confucius

“I always tell my athletes, don’t confuse difficulty with failure.” Eric Orton

“That’s the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life is.” Kara Goucher

“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” Lou Holtz

“Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there’s no reason to fear starting lines…or other new beginnings.” Amby Burfoot

“Running has taught me to love my brain, my body, and what both can do for me when I use them wisely and appreciate them” Meggie Smith

“‘I breathe in strength and breathe out weakness,’ is my mantra during marathons—it calms me down and helps me focus.” Amy Hastings

“Make each day your masterpiece” John Wooden

“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“My drops of tears I’ll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare

“Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.” Dennis DeYoung

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.” Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” Thomas Jefferson

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” Fred Lebow

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie

“Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run.” Jumbo Elliot

“If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.” Emil Zatopek

“I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal.” Bill Rodgers

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey

“Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit. But the greatest of these is spirit.” Ken Doherty

“If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t.” Denis Waitley

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” Jimmy Dean

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” Scott Hamilton

“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.” Edmund Hillary

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” Epictetus

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” George Lorimer

“Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.” William Shakespeare

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” Albert Einstein

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” John Gardner

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” Vincent Willem van Gogh

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” Kathrine Switzer

“Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow” Mary Anne Radmacher

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.” Lynn Jennings

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.” L.M. Montgomery

“A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.” Joe Henderson

“Part of a runner’s training consists of pushing back the limits of his mind.” Kenny Moore

“Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.” Gail W. Kislevitz

“Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there I promise.” Zoe Koplowitz

“Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Elliot

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” H.G. Wells

“Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day’s canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations.” Dagny Scott Barrio

“In many ways, a race is analogous to life itself. Once it is over, it cannot be re-created. All that is left are impressions in the heart, and in the mind.” Chris Lear

“You need to choose to be great. It’s not a chance, it’s a choice.” Eliud Kipchoge

“It hurts up to a point and then it doesn’t get any worse.” Ann Trason

“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.” William Samuel Johnson

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius

“I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you’re willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.” Danny Dreyer

“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” Woody Allen

“You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.” Steve Prefontaine

“The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do.” Walter Bagehot

“You do not write your life with words … You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” Patrick Ness

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.” Hippocrates

“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.” George Washington Carver

“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” Dale Carnegie

“If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.” Emil Zatopek

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” Earl Nightingale

“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” Theodore T. Hunger

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Helen Keller

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” Steve Prefontaine

“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.” Gene Tunney

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” William James

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” Richelle E. Goodrich

“Some sessions are stars and some are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.” Chrissie Wellington

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” Kenji Miyazawa

“Don’t fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.” Christopher McDougall

“Every race is a question, and I never know until the last yards what the answer will be. That’s the lure of racing.” Joe Henderson

“There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.” Greg Dening

“Run hard when it’s hard to run” Pavvo

“Strength does not come from the physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

“We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.” Deena Kastor

“The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.” George Sheehan

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.” John Wooden

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers

“Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better.” Juha Vaatainen

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

“The marathon is not really about the marathon, it’s about the shared struggle. And it’s not only the marathon, but the training.” Bill Buffum

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” Pablo Picasso

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” Jack London

“It doesn’t matter where you came from. All that matters is where you are going.” Brian Tracy

“The harder the hill, the steeper the climb, the better the view from the finishing line.” Paul Newman

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” Napoleon Hill

“As athletes we have ups and downs. Unfortunately you can’t pick the days they come on.” Deena Kastor

“The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.” Haruki Murakami

“If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy.” Amby Burfoot

“Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” John Wooden

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” Zig Ziglar

“Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” Rose Kennedy

“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.” David Livingstone

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King

“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.” Hal Higdon

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” Robert H. Schuller

“Success is not the absence of failure; it’s the persistence through failure.” Aisha Tyler

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” Frank Zappa

“Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.” Gary Vaynerchuk

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston S. Churchill

“Running is like celebrating your soul. There’s so much it can teach us in life.” Molly Barker

“I am not afraid to fail; to get lost, to dream, to be myself, to find. I am not afraid to live.” Killian Jornet

“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.” Henry David Thoreau

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” Helen Keller

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” Benjamin Disraeli

“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” Napoleon Hill

“Don’t be afraid to dream of achieving the impossible.” Shalane Flanagan

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” Virginia Satir

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” Tommy Lasorda

“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.” Marcus Aurelius

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Lucille Ball

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” Robertson Davies

“Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn’t sure he can accomplish.” Scott Jurek

“If you start to feel good during an ultra, don’t worry, you will get over it.” Gene Thibeault

“Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” Bob Marley

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak

“Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.” William Shakespeare

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.” Oliver Goldsmith

“Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever.” Kim Cowart

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” W. P. Kinsella

“Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” Shonda Rhimes

“I didn’t give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn’t understand the power of periodization.” Alberto Salazar

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” David Carradine

“Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.” Katarina Witt

“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

“We cannot start over. But we can begin now and make a new ending.” Zig Ziglar

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” John Muir

“The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.” Richard Monckton Milnes

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.” Erma Bombeck

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