Running Marathon Quotes:

It's very hard in 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 A. Sheehan

topic: Motivational, Running, Ideas, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Inspirational, Life, Basketball, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

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

- Kathrine Switzer

source: "This Inspiring, Blind Young Man Is Running the NYC Marathon to Save Lives" by Sibylle Eschapasse, www.theepochtimes.com. October 29, 2015.

topic: Running, Endurance, Watches, Marathon Motivational, Losing Faith

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

- Jacqueline Gareau

source: "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

topic: Fitness, Running, Strong, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

- Molly Ringwald

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Depression, Role Models, People, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

- Mitch Hedberg

topic: Funny, Depression, Humor, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Runner

Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

- John Farrington

topic: Running, Pain, Cutting, Inspirational Runner, Damage Is Done

You shall become the person you are.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.219, Vintage

topic: Jogging, Great Running, Distance Running, Marathon Motivational, Distance Runner

I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here.

- Uta Pippig

topic: Beautiful, Running, Opponents, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner

Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

- Fred Lebow

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

topic: Running, Inspirational Running, Thrill, Running Marathon, Training For A Marathon

Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

- Hal Higdon

source: Hal Higdon (2011). “Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide: Advice, Plans, and Programs for Half and Full Marathons”, p.207, Rodale

topic: Running, Motivation, Keys, Running Marathon

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

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Marathon Runners

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

- Roger Bannister

source: "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

topic: Motivational, Success, Fitness, Hurt And Pain, Hurt Pain

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

- Paavo Nurmi

topic: Positive Thinking, Mind, Pieces, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama. It has competition. Every jogger can't dream of being an Olympic champion, but he can dream of finishing a marathon.

- Fred Lebow

topic: Running, Dream, Drama, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

- George S. Patton

topic: Running, Courage, Blood, Inspirational Runner, Running Funny

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.

- Frank Shorter

topic: Running, Mind, Trying, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

- Christopher McDougall

source: Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Gazelles, Marathon Motivational

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

- John Bingham

source: John Bingham (1999). “The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: Running, Years, Membership, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

- Sebastian Coe

topic: Running, Distance, Long, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track

You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade ad The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

- Juma Ikangaa

topic: Running, Mean, Winning, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

- Hal Higdon

topic: Running, Differences, Hot, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

- Jesse Owens

topic: Running, Endurance, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Training

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

- Roger Bannister

source: Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

topic: Motivational, Sports, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

- Doug Larson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Achievement

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Motivational, Running, Fitness, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

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

- Dean Karnazes

source: Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.197, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Marathon Man, Marathon Motivational

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Motivational, Success, Softball, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

- Steve Prefontaine

source: "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Motivational, Running, Not Giving Up, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

- William James

topic: Running, Perseverance, Inspirational Sports, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

- Haile Gebrselassie

topic: Running, Distance, Marathon, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

- Robert Frost

source: "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

topic: Love, Inspirational, Sleep, Marathon Running, Broken Promises

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

- Steve Prefontaine

topic: Running, Pain, Race, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

- Jesse Owens

source: Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Running, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

- Emil Zatopek

topic: Running, Different, Want, Marathon Runners, Running Marathon

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

- John Ruskin

topic: Change, Weather, Different, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Football, Marathon Runners

I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

- Ryan Hall

topic: Running, Thinking, Just Being, Marathon Running, Motivational Running

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

- Jerome Drayton

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

- PattiSue Plumer

topic: Fitness, Workout, Thinking, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

- George A. Sheehan

topic: Fitness, Running, Children, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Running

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

- Ann Trason

topic: Running, Hurt, It Hurts, Marathon Running, Inspirational Track

When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

- Jesse Owens

topic: Country, Running, Differences, Cross Country Running, Running Marathon

It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it.

- Brooks Johnson

topic: Running, Distance, Doe, Marathon Running, Motivational Cross Country Running

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Running, Winning, Race, Marathon Running, Berserk

No negative thoughts cross my mind on race day. When I look into their eyes, I know I'm going to beat them.

- Danny Harris

topic: Running, Eye, Race, Marathon Motivational, Keep Running

If you run 100 miles a week, you can eat anything you want - Why? Because (a) you'll burn all the calories you consume, (b) you deserve it, and (c) you'll be injured soon and back on a restricted diet anyway.

- Don Kardong

topic: Running, Want, Week, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Track

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

- Jules Renard

topic: Running, Motivation, Business, Marathon Running, Lazy Man