Everyone loves a good running quote, right? There’s always something to tell you to push harder and not give in, but not every run and every race calls for the same type of motivation. Next time you face one of these challenging situations, think of the following:
Best Hill Running Quotes
“If the hill has its own name, then it’s probably a pretty tough hill.” - Running coach Marty Stern
“I believe you’ll develop speed via strength work, which includes hill running, either repeats or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.” - Bill Rodgers
Best Marathon Running Quotes
“If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.” - Emil Zatopek
"No marathon gets easier later. The half way point only marks the end of the beginning." - Joe Henderson, running writer
Best Running Quotes for Enjoying the Journey
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than in miles.” - Timothy Cahill
"Like a prayer, but without a specific petition, running called me to quiet my thoughts. I kept it up, aware of all the things I was running from, and still having no idea what I was running toward." - Cami Ostman
Best Running Quote for Pushing Through the Wall
“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up." - Dean Karnazes
“What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.” - James Dyson
Best Running Quotes for Overcoming Struggle
“Struggle is the food from which change is made, and the best time to make the most of a struggle is when it's right in front of your face.” - Danny Dreyer
“If you don't think you were born to run you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.” - Christopher McDougall
“Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.” - Dagny Scott Barrios
Best Running Quotes for Commitment
“Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.” - Kristin Armstrong
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” - Robert Collier
Best Women’s Running Quotes
"Have a dream, make a plan, go for it. You’ll get there I promise." - Zoe Koplowitz, a marathon runner who is afflicted with multiple sclerosis and diabetes and has finished more than 25 New York City Marathons, all of them in last place.
"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." - Priscilla Welch, who twice broke the British record for the marathon.
"The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop, but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy… It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed." - Jacqueline Gareau, first Canadian woman to win the Boston Marathon.
Quotes from Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.” - Christopher McDougall
“If you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom." - Christopher McDougall
“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
“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.” - Christopher McDougall
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