40 Motivational Running Quotes with Pictures

In this post, Saying Images rounded up 40 inspiring running quotes to keep you to stay motivated everyday. Running is a wonderful sport, which you determine where, when, how far and how fast to run each day. We hope these famous quotes about running can inspire you, check them out!

Quotes about Running

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. – Doris Brown Heritage

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see – Jimmy Buffett

I always loved running…it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. – Jesse Owens

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it’s all about. – PattiSue Plumer

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. -John Bingham

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be. -Dr. George Sheehan

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

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

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

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic. -Tim Noakes

Every day is a good day when you run.  – Kevin Nelson

Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don’t have to rush through it – Jim Fixx

In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn’t I wouldn’t do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me. – Ron Clarke

I run because it’s my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I’m going where I’m going and I’m already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise… it’s a consistent reward for victory! – Sasha Azevedo

My philosophy on running is: I don’t dwell on it, I do it – Joan Benoit Samuelson

 

The race does not always go to the swift, but to the ones who keep running.

When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t. – Peter Snell

The runner must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it – Franz Stampfl

If you want to win something run 100 meters. If you want to experience something run a marathon – Emil Zatopek

Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you’re young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don’t let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself. -John Bingham.

You have to wonder at times what you’re doing out there. Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement. – Steve Prefontaine

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

Inspirational Quotes to Keep Running

What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day. – Hal Higdon

To give anything less than your best is the sacrifice the gift. – Steve Prefonataine

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving. – Maurice Greene

There are no shorcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ― Haruki Murakami

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.- Rosalynn Carter

A champion is not made when he succeeds, a champion is made when you look back at the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and months he has spent preparing

With self-discipline most anything is possible. – Theodore Roosevelt

I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought. – Arthur Blank

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. – Edward Stanley

There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people. – Bill Bowerman

The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. – John Bingham

It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great
Hope you like these running quotes, if you find any amazing quotes about running we missed out, feel free to comment. Keep reading: 30 Inspirational Sports Quotes | Motivational Quotes

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