Inspirational Quotes

Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.

~ Kim Fielding - Guarded

Dead or not, I have come for his heart and I will have it.

~ Holly Black

We can't be brave without fear.

~ Muhammad Ali

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will comeAt last to finer melody in you;That I may tell my heart that you beginWhere passing I leave off, and fathom more.

~ Will Durant

Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.

~ Amit Kalantri

[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you.

~ John Chrysostom

They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example of what a great man and husband looked like, walking up to his weeping wife, gently embracing her, soothing her, lifting and holding her soul up high while she released her own pains and worries from the last two days, feeling him, leaning into him, and submitting her pain and fears to her husband out of her love and trust. His strength was shown in his softness. He was made strong in his wife’s pain. He was her man of God

~ Lee Goff

Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or “Time management” will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you’re stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you will not perform up to your potential. You will waste a lot of time, be an inefficient performer, and likely assume you need to manage your time better. In reality you need to manage your thinking better.

~ John Eliot

Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and underestimate what they can do in an hour.

~ Anonymous

The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.

~ Sheri Kaye Hoff

If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.

~ Ari Gold

Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time.

~ Vishwas Chavan

Help yourself before you help others.

~ Jayson Engay

Facts give way when faith is activated.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

~ John Bingham

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

~ Dean Karnazes

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

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

~ Christopher Mcdougall

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 & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.

~ John Bingham

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

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

Movement is the essence of life.

~ Bernd Heinrich

If you refuse to practice run today,it will make harder to practice it tomorrow

~ Ahkeno

It can't be more than a quarter of a mile to the finish, but it seems to go on forever. Do I really have to do this? My legs are entirely dead. Would it really matter if I stopped here?But I know I'd regret it if I did, so I plod leadenly on, distracting myself...with the thought that, whatever troubles I may have been carrying around in my head before the race, I have now entirely forgotten what they were. This thought is rather refreshing. Whatever physical pains it has involved, this ordeal has utterly absorbed me, forcing my brain to focus on the kind of concerns for which it evolved - navigation, survival, balance, digging deep - rather than on the fretful urban anxieties to which it has become habituated. Reconnecting with your inner animal, I suppose you could call it; and it feels good. Especially when, blissfully, I catch sight of the finish.

~ Richard Askwith

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely coasting by in life isn't an accomplishment.

~ Dawn Dais

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

~ Ayn Rand

It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.

~ Eric Liddell

At age 43, when I decided to run again, I realized that the images used to describe runners didn't fit me. I wasn't a rabbit. I wasn't a gazelle or a cheetah or any of the other animals that run fast and free. But I wasn't a turtle or a snail either. I wasn't content anymore to move slowly through my life and hide in my shell when I was scared.I was a round little man with a heavy heart but a hopeful spirit. I didn't really run, or even jog. I waddled. I was a Penguin. This was the image that fit. Emperor-proud, I stand tallto face the elements of my life. Yes, I am round. Yes, I am slow. Yes, I run as thought my legs are tied together at the knees. But I am running. And that is all that matters.

~ John Bingham

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

~ Christopher Mcdougall

The act of running is simple, one foot in front of the other. The art of becoming a runner is achieved through a new mindset and commitment to change, especially if it’s new to you. It’s tough, challenging, painful, sometimes lonely, regularly uncomfortable and often excruciating…but the rewards are second to none.

~ Terry Lander

Today, I run for pure, absolute joy.

~ Lopez Lomong

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

~ Kathrine Switzer

It's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. And it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives.We were not designed to stand still. If we were, we'd have at least three legs. We were designed to move. Our bodies are bodies that have walked across vast continents. Our bodies are bodies that have carried objects of art and war over great distances. We are no less mobile than our ancestors. We are athletes. We are warriors. We are human.

~ John Bingham

Cherishing Jesus as gain above all people, above all wealth, above all powers.

~ Mac Canoza

Never pursue happiness, just create the happiness inside you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

~ Debasish Mridha

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

~ Debasish Mridha