137 Running Fast Quotes

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Famous Running Fast Quotes

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast — Jon Bon Jovi

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast. — Evelyn Ashford

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am. — Jennifer Beals

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire. — Rob Delaney

If you're chasing your dream, you're not running fast enough. Run faster — Puff Daddy

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. - Arjen Robben

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it. — Arjen Robben

I like a man who can run faster than I can. — Jane Russell

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

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

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

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. - Eric Liddell

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. — Eric Liddell

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed. — Arthur Lydiard

All I've done is run fast. I don't see why people should make much fuss about that. — Fanny Blankers-Koen

I was born to be a runner. I simply love to run. It's almost like the faster I go, the easier it becomes. — Mary Decker Slaney

Speed is only useful if you’re running in the right direction. — Pat Flynn

Short Running Fast Quotes

  • A runner must run with dreams in his heart. — Emil Zatopek
  • Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does. — James Dashner
  • He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him. — Bobby Robson
  • Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running. — Julie Isphording
  • You cannot run faster than a bullet. — Idi Amin
  • A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. — Ovid
  • The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him. — Barry Switzer
  • Learn to run when feeling the pain, then push harder. — William Sigei
  • Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. — Wyatt Earp
  • It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll

Running Fast Image Quotes

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. - Demetri Martin quote

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray. — Demetri Martin

Running fast quote Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.

Time Is Running Fast Quotes

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time. — Charles Stanley

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower. — Roger Bannister

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven. — Roger Bannister

Running fast quote Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think. — Costa-Gavras

Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time. — Charles Godfrey Leland

Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less. — Henry Rono

Running fast quote One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?
One life. Just one. Why aren't we running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and the hands holding your hands. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

Days Running Fast Quotes

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

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed. — Florence Welch

Every day of my life it feels as if I'm fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down. And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere. — Colleen Hoover

Running fast quote God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.
God sometimes removes people from your life to protect you. Don't run after them.

At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run. — Haile Gebrselassie

I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard. — Mike Tindall

Having heard Clifford Brown play all those fast runs, I used to really practice Clarke trumpet exercises all day long so that I could play fast. That's all I wanted to do. I was like a child with a toy. — Wynton Marsalis

Running fast quote Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes yo
Anyone can run away, it's super easy. Facing problems and working through them, that's what makes you strong.

I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week. — Walt Mossberg

No one runs fast without an extreme amount of training. Like today, you see kids walking around dribbling a basketball. I had a bag with track shoes in it, and I used to go to the track every day. — Edwin Moses

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to. — Tom Dreesen

MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me. — Ray Bradbury

Fast And Furious Quotes

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much. — Dan Buettner

'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world. — Laz Alonso

It's funny to see the people connect with Fast & Furious the way they do. I had no clue, I didn't get it. And now, more I get it and I see it. — Paul Walker

Running fast quote Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.
Running from your problems is just adding another one to the list.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. — Vin Diesel

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens

Life is like watching Fast and the Furious 6. Its not easy, most of the time its just dumb and pointless, everything is fake, there is a lot of noise, but if you close your eyes and picture yourself in an open field or a quiet forest, you can maybe make it to the end without killing yourself — Jon Lajoie

Running fast quote If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. — Cat Stevens

I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise. — Natasha Leggero

When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?' — Vin Diesel

You may have seen me in movies like 'Fast & Furious' and 'Avatar.' But I wouldn't have been able to do any of that without hard work and determination. You can accomplish anything if you just stay out of trouble and do the right things. — Laz Alonso

Running Quotes

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. - Norman Maclean

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. — Norman Maclean

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home. — Snoop Dogg

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan

Running fast quote Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan

People aren't born strong. people grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations learning not to run from them. — Christina Grimmie

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time. - Glenn Frey

People don't run out of dreams - people just run out of time. — Glenn Frey

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit. — LeCrae

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. — Maxine Waters

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours. — Zig Ziglar

Walking Fast Quotes

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.' — Shunryu Suzuki

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast — Paul Scott Mowrer

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside. — Elizabeth von Arnim

Running fast quote If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

The doctors of antiquity have affirmed that love is a passion that resembles a melancholy disease. The physician Rasis prescribed, therefore, in order to recover, coitus, fasting, drunkenness, and walking. — Marsilio Ficino

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery. — Jentezen Franklin

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. — Lois Capps

Running fast quote Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.

If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times. — Kristin Davis

if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater. — George Muller

One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again. — Victor Garber

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both. — Francis Quarles

Driving Fast Quotes

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. - Colin McRae

Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers. — Colin McRae

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson

Driving fast on the track does not scare me. What scares me is when I drive on the highway I get passed by some idiot who thinks he is Fangio. — Juan Manuel Fangio

Running fast quote Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.
Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win.

People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses. — Alex Jones

I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. — Kim Dotcom

I’m a Lamborghini, you’re a Volvo. You’re slow as hell, and I’m so damn fast. — KSI

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty. — Kate Walsh

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. — Steven Wright

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery. — Doug Horton

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. — June Carter Cash

Run Faster Quotes

The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster. — Eric Liddell

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front. — Benjamin E. Mays

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. — Frank Iero

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. — Brian Tracy

One trick to programming faster is to do less in your head & run the code more. — Greg Brockman

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. — Henry David Thoreau

Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster. — Jon Bon Jovi

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to. — Norman Thomas

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

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. — Richard Stallman

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More Running Fast Quotes

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

I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time. — Elizabeth Robinson Schwartz

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. — Julie Burchill

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. — George Orwell

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. — Carol Kane

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. — Tom Brady

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running. — Florence Griffith Joyner

No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it. — T. B. Joshua

Rapport? You mean like, You'll run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can? — Jeff Kemp

Johan was more than just a great soccer player. He was a role model who promoted world peace. He brought the values of education into the game of football and proved that on the field, everyone is equal - Jews, Muslims and Christians - that running fast and playing well will lead to victory in spite of discrimination and racism. — Roger Milla

But talent—if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless. — Elizabeth Hand

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go. — Edward McKendree Bounds

In Alice in Wonderland one had to run fast to stand still, in the stock markets, one who stands still can really make money fast. — Thomas Phelps

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could. — Ken Griffey, Jr.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me. — Jackson Browne

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. — William Shakespeare

When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow,slow,slow. People said, 'Emil, you are crazy. You are training like a sprinter.' — Emil Zatopek

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing. — Marc Andreessen

How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN. — Steve Prefontaine

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing. — Frank Shorter

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. — Larry Clark

The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning. — William Wordsworth

Let us flee from the deceit of life and its supposed happiness and run to Christ alone, who is the Savior of souls. Him let us endeavor to find Who is present everywhere, and when we have found Him let us hold Him fast and fall at His feet (cf. Mt. 28:9) and embrace them in the fervor of our souls. — Symeon the New Theologian

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste. — David Livingstone

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you. — Hal Higdon

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! — Lewis Carroll

I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure. — Barry Sanders

I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people. — Richard Branson

Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can. — Jim Rogers

If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless. — Daniel Gilbert

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