90 Ultra Quotes

Following is our list of ultra quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about ultra running.

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Famous Ultra Quotes

When you think about winning, you go to the extreme. — Giannis Antetokounmpo

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

Anything less than the best is a felony. — Vanilla Ice

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. — Tom Flores

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. — Bertrand Russell

Do things better than they have ever been done before. — Angela Duckworth

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme! — Kurt Angle

Grind Hard, Shine Hard. — Dwayne Johnson

You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore — Jack Black

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards. — Marcus Luttrell

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. — Jean Dubuffet

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be the best you have to work overtime. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. - Albert Camus

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. — Albert Camus

Short Ultra Quotes

  • The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them. — Arthur C. Clarke
  • Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
  • It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason
  • Ultra high speed slow mo. — Jon Gruden
  • The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit — George A. Sheehan
  • It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running. — Abe Gubegna
  • It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. — Theodore Roosevelt
  • There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes. — Billy Connolly
  • There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner. — Dean Karnazes
  • If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it. — Yogi Berra

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Plus Ultra Quotes

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond. — D. H. Lawrence

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. — Sayings

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? — Julia Kavanagh

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Ultra Running Quotes

The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless. — Dean Karnazes

I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that. — Dean Karnazes

I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. — Sasha Azevedo

I started running ultras to become a better person. — Jenn Shelton

The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. — George A. Sheehan

I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. — Dean Karnazes

I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope. — Jenn Shelton

Runners like to train 100 miles per week because it's a round number. But I think 88 is a lot rounder. — Don Kardong

How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don't stop till you cross the finish line. — Dean Karnazes

I run because it always takes me where I want to go. — Dean Karnazes

Ultra Marathon Quotes

So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

If it felt good, you didn't push hard enough. It's supposed to hurt like hell. — Dean Karnazes

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. — Dean Karnazes

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pain is the body's way of ridding itself of weakness. — Dean Karnazes

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More Ultra Quotes

People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are. — Gurbaksh Chahal

As bad as the denial of fossil fuels’ unique cost-effectiveness is, an even worse failure of our knowledge system is its utter trivialization of the benefits of cost-effective energy as such and of ultra-cost-effective fossil fuel energy in particular. — Alex Epstein

Tomatoes that can sit in the pantry slowly ripening for months without rotting. Plants that can better weather climate change. Mosquitoes that are unable to transmit malaria. Ultra-muscular dogs that make fearsome partners for police and soldiers. Cows that no longer grow horns. These organisms might sound far-fetched, but in fact, they already exist, thanks to gene editing. And they're only the beginning. As I write this, the world around us is being revolutionized by CRISPR, whether we're ready for it or not. — Jennifer Doudna

I didn't get into ultra-endurance sports to win races, beat others, or stand atop podiums. I got into it because it's a perfect template for self-discovery--a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual odyssey to more deeply understand myself, determine my purpose, and discover my place in the world. A way to tap into my unexplored reservoirs of potential--and touch the other side. This was the promise of Ultraman. And it delivered in spades. — Rich Roll

The fact that, during the most miraculous decline of extreme poverty in human history, contributed to by ultra-cost-effective energy from fossil fuels, college-educated adults can think the rate of extreme poverty is getting worse due to fossil fuels shows just how completely our knowledge system trivializes the benefits of fossil fuels and of cost-effective energy as such. — Alex Epstein

In 1904, Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born revolutionary who would not meet Lenin for three more years, condemned his vision of organization as “military ultra-centralism.” Trotsky, who sided with Martov, compared Lenin to the Jesuitical Catholic Abbe Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes – suspicious toward other people, fanatically attached to the idea, inclined to be dictator while claiming to put down supposedly ubiquitous sedition. — Stephen Kotkin

Do you know how much of the food you eat is ultra-processed? Here in the UK, UPF makes up 60% of the average diet. — Rangan Chatterjee

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. — Bernard Arnault

Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state. — Norman Lamm

I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence. — Simon Conway Morris

Many people these days, certainly most regular listeners to this podcast, will be aware of ultra-processed foods UPFs. But there’s still a lot of confusion around what they really are. — Rangan Chatterjee

If your doctor tells you to cut back on dairy, meat, and eggs BEFORE telling you to cut added sugar, refined grains, and ultra-processed foods. Find a new doctor. — Max Lugavere

In fact, several studies have shown that losing weight and exercising vigorously can sometimes actually reverse the disease diabetes, at least during its early stages. One extreme study placed eleven diabetics on a grueling ultra-low-calorie diet of just 600 calories per day for eight weeks. Six hundred calories is an extreme diet that would challenge most people it’s about two tuna fish sandwiches a day. After two months, however, these seriously food-deprived diabetics had lost an average of 13 kilograms 27 pounds, mostly visceral fat, their pancreases doubled how much insulin they could produce, and they recovered nearly normal levels of insulin sensitivity. Vigorous physical activity also has potent reversal effects by causing your body to produce hormones glucagon, cortisol, and others that cause your liver, muscle, and fat cells to release energy. These hormones temporarily block the action of insulin while you exercise, and then they increase the sensitivity of these cells to insulin for up to sixteen hours following each bout of exercise. — Daniel Lieberman

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything. — John McPhee

Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action. — Rory Vaden

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved. — Noel Fielding

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty. — Anna Brownell Jameson

I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live. — Clint Eastwood

The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you. — Watkin Tudor Jones

I play a lot of ultra-violent video games. — Cory Monteith

In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe... and an attack on the remnants of the welfare state. It's hard to interpret the austerity-in-the-midst-of-recession policy as anything other than attack on the social contract. — Noam Chomsky

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment. — Bernard Arnault

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