| “It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.” |
| The race does not always go to the swift, but to those who keep on running. |
| Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
| Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. |
| Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it better. |
| To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. |
| If you think you can do it, you’re right. If you think you can’t do it, you’re still right. |
| No bird sours too high, if she/he soars with her/his own wings. |
| Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. |
| Its does not matter where you finish or how fast you run, being a winner means doing your best. |
| Every great and commanding moment is the triumph of some enthusiasm. |
| Bid me run and I will strive for things impossible. |
| There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. |
| Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no person can live. |
| When going for your personal best, try not to confuse consternation with concentration. Consternation comes from focusing too strongly on your goal. Concentration means tuning in the signals coming from your own body and mind; tuning out distractions. |
| You can be your own hero. How you run should be more important than anything that happens to the superstars of the sport. Other people may run faster than you, but no one can do your running for you or take away from what you’ve done. |
| Train far enough for your race distance, fast enough for its speed, easy enough in between. |
| Train, don’t strain. |
| Run toward no finish line, but make keeping going your ultimate goal and reward. |
| Take care to stay healthy and happy on today’s run and tomorrows will take care of itself. |
| It does not matter where I finish or how fast I run. Being a winner means doing your best. |
| Simply finishing is the first level of winning. A slow race is better than an incomplete one. |
| Find your greatest victories in the good times that aren’t measured by a stopwatch. |
| Even if you fall flat on your face at least you are moving forward. |
| No one can say, “You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that, the human spirit is indomitable. |
| If you can’t win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. |
| Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop. |
| Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. |
| Laziness in nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. |
| The will to run is not as nearly as important as the will to prepare. |
| Pain is temporary, finishing is forever. |
| You must do the thing you think you cannot do. |
| You’re better than you think you are and you can do more than you think you can! |
| Runners just do it-they run to the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. |
| To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice The Gift. |
| Success comes before work only in the dictionary. |
| The miracle isn’t that I finished, the miracle is I had the courage to start. |
| Nobody said it would be easy, they just said it would be worth it. |
| Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those doing it. |
| Heat pumping, muscles burning, feet aching, lungs screaming for air, yea we run for fun! |
| Do not let what you can do interfere with what you can do. |
| No one knows what he can do until he/she tries. |
| 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. |
| The miracle isn’t that I finished…The miracle is that I had the courage to start. |
| Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. |
| You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. |
| Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. |
| Good habits result from resisting temptation. |
| As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. |
| Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. |
| Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. |
| That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displace the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. |
| What make’s the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. |
| Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. |
| Who so neglects learning in their youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. |
| Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. |
| Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. |
| Knowledge is power |
| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |
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