31+ Running Quotes And Sayings For Life Motivation (2023)

31+ Running Quotes And Sayings For Life Motivation (2023)

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Here are the best motivational quotes and sayings for 2023 about running that will inspire you to keep a check on your health.


Quotes For Running Motivation

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

2. “Running is kind of like coffee. The first time you drink it you might not like it. It’s bitter and leaves a bad taste in your mouth but you kind of like the way it makes you feel. However, after a few times, it starts to taste better and then all of a sudden you’re hooked and it’s the new best part of waking up” -Amy Hastings

3. “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 Barrios

4. “Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running” – Julie Isphording

5. “Remember, the feeling you get from a good run is far better than the feeling you get from sitting around wishing you were running” – Sarah Condor

6. “You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running” – Christopher McDougall

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

8. “You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done” – Adam Goucher


Quotes About Runners

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

10. “All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off” – Shalane Flanagan

11. “Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life” – Haruki Murakami

12. “A runner is real when she takes the first step” – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

13. “If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it” – Priscialla Welch

14. “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

15. “A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket” – Emil Zatopek

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Quotes About Running And Life

16. “Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished” – Patrick Ness

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

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

19. “The benefits and opportunities of running are available to anyone. You don’t have to be born a natural athlete, and you don’t have to be uniquely gifted. A life-shaping experience is there for the taking, waiting right outside your door” – Donald Buraglio

20. “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived” – Dean Karnazes

21. “Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge” – Dave Bedford

22. “Ask nothing from your running, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined” – Christopher McDougall


Sayings About Power Of Running

23. “There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul” – Kristin Armstrong

24. “Our running shoes have magic in them. The power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle” – Mina Samuels

25. “Running teaches us that we are capable of so much more than we ever imagined” – PattiSue Plumer

26. “We run to undo the damage we’ve done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered” – John Bingham

27. “Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance” – Noel Carroll

28. “In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms” – Joyce Carol Oates

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


Short Quotes About Running

30. “As we run, we become” – Amby Burfoot

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

32. “Don’t run with your legs, run with your heart” – Dean Karnazes


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