50 motivational quotes about running a race
- Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. – Dean Karnazes
- The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. – John Bingham
- Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes. – Gautama Buddha
- You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running. – Christopher McDougall
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefontaine
- Only the disciplined ones in life are free. – Eliud Kipchoge
- Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. – Oprah Winfrey
- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – Haruki Murakami
- Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. – PattiSue Plumer
- The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. – Juma Ikangaa
- 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." – Unknown
- If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. – John Bingham
- In the middle of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary. – Shalane Flanagan
- The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. – George Sheehan
- You can run a sprint or you can run a marathon, but you can’t sprint a marathon. – Ryan Holmes
- Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started. – Steve Prefontaine
- Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. – Bonnie Blair
- Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden
- The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. – Unknown
- Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. – Gail Devers
- The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race; it’s to test the limits of the human heart. – Bill Bowerman
- There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day. – Unknown
- If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. – Kathrine Switzer
- It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. – Tom Hanks (A League of Their Own)
- Don't dream of winning; train for it! – Mo Farah
- I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days. – Ronald Rook
- Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, others head for the corner pub, but I chose running as my therapy. – Dean Karnazes
- The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, but to be with each other. – Christopher McDougall
- Running clears my mind, and it gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning. – Ronnie O’Sullivan
- The voice in your head that says you can’t do this is a liar. – Unknown
- Run your race. – Unknown
- Faster, harder, stronger. Every day. – Unknown
- Your only limit is you. – Unknown
- The body achieves what the mind believes. – Unknown
- One run can change your day; many runs can change your life. – Unknown
- Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t. – Rikki Rogers
- Running teaches us that we are capable of so much more than we ever imagined. – PattiSue Plumer
- Fear is a liar. Run to prove it wrong. – Unknown
- A run begins the moment you forget you’re running. – Adidas Ad
- What seems impossible today will one day become your warm-up. – Unknown
- A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you’ve done it, you feel that you can do anything. – Unknown
- It’s not the distance you must conquer in running; it’s yourself. – Unknown
- A marathon is hundreds of miles. The finish is the last 26.2. – Unknown
- Every mile is magic. – Unknown
- Marathons don't make you stronger; they show you how strong you are. – Unknown
- Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. – Philip C. McGraw
- There is no finish line. – Nike Ad
- You’re not running against anyone else. You’re running against yourself. – Unknown
- Run the first third with your head, the middle third with your personality, and the last third with your heart. – Unknown
- Keep running. The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow. – Unknown