Inspiration
Here is a collection of motivational quotes and other things I have gathered inspiration from that I have come across during my running career. Enjoy!
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
~ Isaiah 40:31
Mind is everything: muscle, pieces of rubber.
All that I am, I am because of my mind.
~ Paavo Nurmi
Fall down seven. Stand up eight.
~ Chinese Proverb
I hated every minute of training, but I said,
”Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
~ Mahummad Ali
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
~ Maya Angelou
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
~ Proverbs 3:5-6
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
~ Confucius
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
~ Confucius
There is no substitute for hard work.
~ Thomas Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas Edison
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
~ Vince Lombardi
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~ Plato
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
~ 1 Corinthians 9:24
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Billy Mills Wins 1964 10,000m Olympic Final
Steve Prefontaine, Inspiration
Yes!!!! I grew up in the 80′s
OK…. A Little humor too! I find this guy very inspiring..
Ian Schwartz. I used to race Ian. Mad Props Man, keep it up!
Ryan Clark falls while following my old teammate in the steeplechase at Ohio State
Why Do You Run?
I watched this in person and was inspired