Motivational Running Quotes

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I refuse to make excuses.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Run in the morning before your brain figures out what your body is doing!

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon –
- Emil Zatopek

The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
- George Sheehan

Up is the new flat.

The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.
- Sir Roger Bannister

All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.
- Haruki Murakami

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

Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.
- Kara Goucher

This race ain’t going to run itself.

As we run, we become.
- Amby Burfoot

I didn’t achieve it overnight. It has been the product of many years’ struggle, and every year, I’ve improved as an athlete a little bit more.
- Mo Farah

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
- Lance Armstrong

If you feel bad at 10 miles, you’re in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you’re normal. If you don’t feel bad at 26 miles, you’re abnormal. —
- Rob de Castella

The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other.
- Christopher McDougall

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- Steve Prefontaine

The impossible is nothing.

The more I run, the more I love my body. Not because it’s perfect, far from it, but because with every mile it is proving to me that I am capable of more than I ever thought possible.

Whether a mile or a marathon, you get there the same way. . . one step at a time. Such is life.
- Baylor Barbee

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

We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.
- Christopher McDougall