Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. — Mao Zedong
Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner. — Chuck Knox
Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count. — Barry Magee
The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat. — Bill Squires
That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it. — Kara Goucher
The best runs sometimes come on days when you didn't feel like running. — Anonymous
It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster. — Scott Jurek
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship. — Benjamin Cheever
Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results. — Robert de Castella
There is a special mystique about the marathon, for example, because of its length-but that's just the bit you do at the end of an Ironman — Chrissie Wellington
When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow. — Arthur Lydiard
Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you. — Deena Kastor
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates
Short Long Runs Quotes
Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly. — Amby Burfoot
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. — Emil Zatopek
If one could run without getting tired I don't think one would often want to do anything else. — C. S. Lewis
A steady step is better than a run that tires. — Mexican Proverbs
Consistency of effort over the long run is everything. — Angela Duckworth
A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. — Dean Karnazes
Top 10 Long Runs Quotes
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best — Henry Ford
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you. — Booker T. Washington
Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. — Gifford Pinchot
As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes and a touch of wildness in their souls, rapids will be run. — Sigurd F. Olson
The Secret to a long and healthy life is to be stress-free. Be grateful for everything you have, stay away from people who are negative stay smiling and keep running. — Fauja Singh
While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy's growth. — Jerome Powell
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
A good summary of investing history is that stocks pay a fortune in the long run, but seek punitive damages when you demand to be paid sooner. — Morgan Housel
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got of their bark hides. — John Muir
The idea is to make it as easy as possible in the moment to do things that payoff in the long run. — James Clear
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Long Distance Running Quotes
Walking long distances is fundamental to being a hunter-gatherer, but people sometimes have to run. One powerful motivation is to sprint to a tree or some other refuge when being chased by a predator. — Daniel Lieberman
In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be. — Haruki Murakami
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive. — Freeman Dyson
I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover. — Jimi Hendrix
During long, slow distance training, you should think of yourself as a thoroughbred disguised as a plow horse. No need to give yourself away by running fast. — Marty Liquori
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success. — Seth Klarman
Long slow distance makes long slow runners. — Jim Bush
I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners. — Sebastian Coe
In the big city, if the man next door happens to be a slum landlord, a Mafia bag man, or a long distance runner, what does it matter, as long as he puts his garbage out on Tuesdays? — Hal Higdon
Distance Running Quotes
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies within him, in his ability with brain and heart to master himself and his emotions. — Glenn Cunningham
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time. — Haile Gebrselassie
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. — Paula Radcliffe
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep... — Robert Frost
I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power. — Jesse Owens
Long term consistency trumps short term intensity.
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way. — Arthur Lydiard
It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason
Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'. — Paul Tergat
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
Long Drive Quotes
We really believe that long-term, the way AI will drive is similar to the way humans drive. — Jensen Huang
The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. — Tim Grover
I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night. — Sammy Hagar
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation. — James Hilton
My dad and brother, are my favourite people to go for with on long drives. The Sangli roads are quite empty and perfect for long drives. — Smriti Mandhana
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp
I will go anywhere as long is it is forward.
It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world. — Stompin' Tom Connors
There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option. — Alison Sweeney
For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes. — Bob Beauprez
I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home. — Travis Barker
What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us. — Ingvar Kamprad
Deep down, your players must know you care about them. This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner. — Bo Schembechler
I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself. — Jesse Owens
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. — Patanjali
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Keller
It's friendship and community that embed a new identity and help behaviors last over the long run. — James Clear
Investment survival has to be achieved in the short run, not on average in the long run. — Howard Marks
Nothing you do is going to matter that much in the long run. — Naval Ravikant
Not everything you're going to do in volleyball - or in life, for that matter - is exciting or fully functional, but if you have the willpower to make each minute count, you'll benefit in some way. And it will make you a better player and a better person in the long run. — Karch Kiraly
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. — John Stuart Mill
In the long run, and even in the medium run, you wouldn’t want to bet against the American economy. — Jerome Powell
Saying I’m in it for the long run is a bit like standing at the base of Mount Everest, pointing to the top, and saying, That’s where I’m heading. Well, that’s nice. Now comes the test. — Morgan Housel
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun. — David Gilmour
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. — Carter G. Woodson
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run. — Lewis B. Smedes
I've said all along that we're building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Sound money allows people to think about the long term and to save and invest more for the future. Saving and investing for the long run are the key to capital accumulation and the advance of human civilization. Money is the information and measurement system of an economy, and sound money is what allows trade, investment, and entrepreneurship to proceed on a solid basis, whereas unsound money throws these processes into disarray. — Saifedean Ammous
But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. — Aulus Cornelius Celsus
I study and teach how and why the human body looks and functions the way it does. I have long been fascinated by the evolution of the human head but my main focus is currently on the evolution of human physical activity. I am especially interested in how evolutionary approaches to activities such as walking and running, as well as changes to our body’s environments such as wearing shoes and being physically inactive can help better prevent and treat musculoskeletal diseases. To address these problems, I integrate experimental biomechanics and physiology in both the laboratory and the field with analyses of the human fossil record. — Daniel Lieberman
Over the long run, however, the real reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-image gets in the way. This is why you can’t get too attached to one version of your identity. Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity. — James Clear
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment. — Jerome Powell
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth. — Julian Simon
Shortsighted things that people sometimes do for their individual self-interest don’t tend to work out well in the long run. — Edward O. Thorp
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run. — Jay Park
The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time. — Anatoly Karpov
In the long run, we become a product of the environment we live in. — James Clear
Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation. — Roy Baumeister
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. — George Orwell
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away — Julian Bond
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. — Amby Burfoot
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