110 Mile Quotes

Following is our list of mile quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about going the extra mile.

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Famous Mile Quotes

Every mile is two in winter — George Herbert

A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time. — Rickson Gracie

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road. — Miyamoto Musashi

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. — Roger Staubach

I have miles to go before I sleep. — Robert Frost

A milestone is less date and more definition. — Rands

Every hundred feet the world changes — Roberto Bolano

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — English Proverbs

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. — John Wanamaker

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. — Lao Tzu

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. — Lao Tzu

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers. — George Carlin

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. — Thomas S. Monson

When your about to criticize someone walk a mile in thier shoes, that way when you criticize them you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes — Ann Brashares

Milestones aren't what I think about much. — Craig Newmark

Short Mile Quotes

  • The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Chinese Proverbs
  • Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. — Japanese Proverbs
  • But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. — Robert Frost
  • Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness. — Gabrielle Roth
  • You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile. — Frank Sinatra
  • One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile. — Napoleon Hill
  • Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together. — Matsuo Basho
  • If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. — Emil Zatopek
  • When it's first and a mile, I won't give it to him. — Bum Phillips
  • Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Mile Image Quotes

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. - Bob Hope quote

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. — Bob Hope

Mile quote A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Extra Mile Quotes

Clearly it's not easy for woman in modern society, no matter where we live. We still have to go extra mile to prove that we are equal to men. We have to work longer hours and make more sacrifices. And we must emotionally protect ourselves from unfair, often vicious attacks made on us. — Benazir Bhutto

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. — Napoleon Hill

We won’t take distance for an answer. We’ll go the extra mile to connect everyone, everywhere, because we know connection is everything. — Micky Watkins

Mile quote There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile. — Conor McGregor

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd — Robin Crow

People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best. — John C. Maxwell

Mile quote Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker. — Stephen Hawking

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit — Bruce Lee

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful. — M. Scott Peck

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. — Joel Osteen

Going The Extra Mile Quotes

Today, do just a little bit more. Turn going the extra mile into a habit - it is what lifts most successful people above the crowd. — Bob Proctor

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. — Zig Ziglar

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. — Steve Jobs

Mile quote Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence
Many life's longest mile is the stretch from dependence to independence

Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you. — Napoleon Hill

Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way. — Jack Johnson

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic. — Jim Larranaga

Mile quote Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.

Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God? — Mark Hart

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter. — Anne Lamott

I'M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I'm a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a "threat" to those who don't know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt. — Benjamin Watson

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile. — Bryan White

8 Mile Quotes

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless! — William McDonough

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources. — Peter Pace

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile. — Kristen Bell

Mile quote A journey of a thousand miles, must begin with a single step
A journey of a thousand miles, must begin with a single step

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. — Yelawolf

When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. — Roald Dahl

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.' — Justin Bieber

Mile quote A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.
A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful. — Danica Patrick

Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like. — Thao Nguyen

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot. — Michael Koryta

I run four miles most days, at about 8:00 to 8:15 pace. It's totally relaxed. — Alberto Salazar

Mileage Quotes

When I see somebody in a Prius, sure, you drive a Prius and you get good gas mileage, but you probably feel like you drive a Prius. — Theo Von

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit. — Henry Rollins

Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination. — Sam Snead

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

There's a great deal about Roman Catholicism that I basically disagree with. For instance, the doctrine of Mary which... I have studied that stuff and I simply don't think that has any mileage at all biblically, theologically, and I've got some friends who are very disappointed that I say that. — N. T. Wright

My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning." — Tao Lin

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage. — Harrison Ford

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now. — Richard Thompson

Different people have different reasons for racing, but one is simply the incentive to get out and run, increase mileage and feel good. — Hal Higdon

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet. — Shannon Miller

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More Mile Quotes

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! — Billy Connolly

It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield. — Attila the Hun

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time. — Nick Saban

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. — Mary Oliver

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. — Frederick Buechner

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. — Billie Holiday

It snowed all day long, fortunately it didn't stay on the road. It was very, very cold today. Fortunately, the wind was at my back. The terrain was rolly but not big hills. The first miles were like usual tough, but I felt quite good from there till the end of 10 miles. — Terry Fox

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. — Johnny Carson

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day. — Dane Cook

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away — Arsene Wenger

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all. — Terry Pratchett

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles. — Bill Bowerman

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature. — Pierre Trudeau

All negotiations are defined by a network of subterranean desires and needs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surface. Once you know that the Haitian kidnappers just want party money, you will be miles better prepared. — Chris Voss

At its closest point, Japan is 120 miles away from the Eurasian landmass, which is among the reasons why it has never been successfully invaded. The Chinese are some 500 miles away and the Russian forces are usually far away because of the extremely inhospitable climate and sparse population on their eastern shore. — Tim Marshall

Only when I am in front by a country mile, like in Melbourne last year. Then you are thinking about other things or you’re playing with the buttons on the steering wheel. — Kimi Raikkonen

For each and every person, our Lord and Master provides sustenance. Why are you so afraid, O mind? The flamingos fly hundreds of miles, leaving their young ones behind. Who feeds them, and who teaches them to feed themselves? Have you ever thought of this in your mind? — Guru Nanak

Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. — Annie Jacobsen

When the Europeans finally made it down the west coast in the 15th century, they found few natural harbors for their ships. Unlike Europe or North America, where the jagged coastlines give rise to natural harbors, much of the African coastline is smooth. And once they did make land they struggled to penetrate any further inland than roughly 100 miles, due to the difficulty of navigating the rivers as well as the challenges of the climate and disease. — Tim Marshall

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — John F. Kennedy

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen

Like it or not, we are slightly fat, furless, bipedal primates who crave sugar, salt, fat, and starch, but we are still adapted to eating a diverse diet of fibrous fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers, and lean meat. We enjoy rest and relaxation, but our bodies are still those of endurance athletes evolved to walk many miles a day and often run, as well as dig, climb and carry. — Daniel Lieberman

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. — Paul Dudley White

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves. — John Adams

And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home. — Wendell Berry

If you're driving down a highway at fifty-five miles per hour and suddenly see a squirrel a few meters in front of you, it's too late for you to do anything about it, because you've already run it over! Your consciousness lives in the past. — Max Tegmark

The key to understanding Russia is the realization that, for over 400 years, Russia has been expanding at an average rate of 50 square miles per day. — Tim Marshall

Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. — Steve Martin

In a single breath, more molecules of air will pass through your nose than all the grains of sand on all the world’s beaches – trillions and trillions of them. These little bits of air come from a few feet or several yards away. As they make their way toward you, they’ll twist and spool like the stars in a van Gogh sky, and they’ll keep twisting and spooling and scrolling as they pass into you, traveling at a clip of about five miles per hour. — James Nestor

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