Inspirational Quotes

"The real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test the limits of the human heart."

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

"I don't run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days."

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

"What feels like the end is often the beginning."

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

"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

"Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts."

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

"I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was."

"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?' The answer is usually yes."

"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."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"Be patient. Everything comes to you in the right moment."

"There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner."