Running Quotes

The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.

Saint Teresa of Avila

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?...There'll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then, I'll just keep plodding onward, putting one foot in front of the other to the best of my ability. Smiling the entire time.

Dean Karnazes

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.

Haruki Murakami

The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

Christopher McDougall

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Dean Karnazes

But I also realize that winning doesn't always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.

Meb Keflezighi

Long Distance training can be a positive

John Bingham

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Haruki Murakami

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. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.

Dagny Scott Barrios

Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.

Dagny Scott Barrios

Movement is the essence of life.

Bernd Heinrich

Everything you need is already inside.

Bill Bowerman

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

Paul Brown

If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Christopher McDougall

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

Stephen King

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

Stephen King

Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.

Anonymous

The best runs sometimes come on days when you didn't feel like running.

Anonymous

I will do today what you won't, so I can do tomorrow what you can't.

Anonymous

There have been many times I regretted skipping a run - but there has never been a time I regretted taking one.

Anonymous