98 BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ON RUNNING

Running is considered as one of the most effective ways to keep your physique alive and kicking, that’s why we have created a compilation of best motivational quotes on running. People usually choose running over other exercises because it is extremely convenient like said in a few motivational quotes on running. According to the following motivational quotes on running, the process a rapid body movement through legs in inverted pendulum motion is extremely beneficial for a lot of ways for your body. Few motivational quotes on running also say that it helps in regulated proper blood circulation throughout the body more efficiently.

You should focus on these motivational quotes on running because it helps in curing many ailments while maintaining the sugar level, blood pressure and oxygen level throughout the body. Many heart patients can cure their ailments by adapting the habit of running. A survey has shown that even the people who experienced major heart attacks can reduce 20% chances of another such attack by running daily. Some motivational quotes have also mentioned the fact that running helps in improving mood as well. running can also be a great escape in today’s scenario of stress according to a motivational quote on running. 30 minutes spent on running will pay you more than a lot, it can relax the body and regenerate new energy in the body to start from the beginning as evident in the following motivational quotes on running.

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Here is the list of best motivational quotes on running,

“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” -Dean Karnazes

“I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.” -Ronald Rook

“The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.” -Haruki Murakami

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle – when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” -Christopher McDougall

“I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.” -Haruki Murakami

“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.” -Dean Karnazes

“Running isn’t a sport for pretty boys… It’s about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. It’s the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It’s about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It’s about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It’s about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there’s not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you’ve finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that’s all that you can ask for.” -Paul Maurer

“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself.” -Haruki Murakami

“Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.” -Joyce Carol Oates

“Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what keeps us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, and all of those voices that tell you what you can and cannot do and can and cannot be.” -John Bingham

“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

“The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.” -Christopher McDougall

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” -Haruki Murakami

“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” -Dean Karnazes

“People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life – and for me, for writing as whole. I believe many runners would agree.” -Haruki Murakami

“Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not demanding more from yourself – expanding and learning as you go – you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” -Dean Karnazes

“If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.” -Christopher McDougall

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” -Lance Armstrong

“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.” -Tim Noakes

“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.” -Haruki Murakami

“People think I’m crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: ‘Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.’ Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.” -Dean Karnazes

“There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.” -Kristin Armstrong

“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” -Kathrine Switzer

“There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.” -Greg Dening

“Running is real and relatively simple… but it ain’t easy.” -Mark Will-Weber

“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

“Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.” -Christopher McDougall

“It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.” -John Bingham

“Getting more exercise isn’t only good for your waistline. It’s a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.” -Auliq Ice

“Try jogging when following your heart, it’s healthier” -Benny Bellamacina

“What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.” -James Dyson

“I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually, the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.” -Haruki Murakami

“But you can’t muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.” -Christopher McDougall

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” -William Arthur Ward

“Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day’s canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations.” -Dagny Scott Barrio

“I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.” -Dean Karnazes

“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head – for creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.” -Roman Payne

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

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” -Henry David Thoreau

“If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.” -Hippocrates

“The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.” -Franklin P. Jones

“If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.” -Christopher McDougall

“Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.” -Charles M. Schulz

“Yes, I am round. Yes, I am slow. Yes, I run as though my legs are tied together at the knees. But I am running. And that is all that matters.” -John Bingham

“Your body provides you with constant feedback that can help improve your running performance while minimizing biomechanical stress. Learn to differentiate between the discomfort of effort and the pain of injury. When you practice listening, you increase competence in persevering through the former and responding with respect and compassion to the latter.” -Gina Greenlee

“But I also realize that winning doesn’t always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.” -Meb Keflezighi

“When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders—women fall into my arms crying. They’re weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything.” -Kathrine Switzer

“The pain of running relieves the pain of living.” -Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them!” -C. JoyBell C.

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” -Criss Jami

“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness” -Donald Bradman

“Never underestimate the heart of a champion!” -Doc Rivers

“I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by–you can’t run and stay mad!” -Kathrine Switzer

“There is about world-class athletes carving out exemptions from physical laws a transcendent beauty that makes manifest God in man.” -David Foster Wallace

“There’s more to marathon day than running long. Learning how your body reacts to the early alarm, light breakfast and warm-up is key. Minimize surprises come race day. Run long the same time of day as the race.” -Gina Greenlee

“We wouldn’t be alive without love, we wouldn’t have survived without running. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.” -Christopher McDougall

“Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” -Amby Burfoot

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.”  -Haruki Murakami

“The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other,… but to be with each other.” -Christopher McDougall

"Don't dream of winning, train for it!" -Mo Farah, Olympic long-distance runner

"Running is alone time that lets my brain unspool the tangles that build up over days...I run, pound it out on the pavement, channel that energy into my legs, and when I'm done with my run, I'm done with it." -Rob Haneisen

"I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run, what they would give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me." -Unknown

"Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable." -Kara Goucher

"I think I get addicted to the feelings associated with the end of a long run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, and sweat-purged. I love that good ache of the muscles that have done me proud." -Kristin Armstrong

"It's very hard at 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." -George Sheehan

"Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run." -Jumbo Elliot

"Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end." -Kim Cowart

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." -Steve Prefontaine

"Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running." -Julie Isphording

"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 is." -Kara Goucher

"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up." —Dean Karnazes

"The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life."  -George Sheehan, M.D.

"There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner." -Dean Karnazes

"It's just as important to remember that each footstike carries you forward, not backward. And every time you put on your running shoes you are different in come way than you were the day before. This is all good news." -John Bingham

"What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared, to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that?" -John L. Parker

"The real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test the limits of the human heart." -Bill Bowerman

"Our running shoes have magic in them. The power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle." -Mina Samuels

“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.” -George S Patton

“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.” -Juma Ikangaa

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” -Oprah Winfrey

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens

“I am not afraid of storms. I am learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott

“Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.” -T.S. Elliot

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky

“Clear your mind of can’t.” -Samuel Johnson

“You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.” -Gatorade ad

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.” -Hal Higdon

“The voice inside your head that says you can’t do this is a liar.” -Unknown

"There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day." -Unknown

“Remember, everything you need is already inside of you.” -Unknown

“Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going.” -Unknown

"I don't stop when I'm tired, I stop when I'm done." –Unknown

"What seems hard now will one day be your warm-up." -Unknown

"A good laugh and a long run are the two best cures for anything." -Unknown

“On your good days, run hard. On your bad days, run as long as you need." -Unknown

"If you want to change your body, exercise. If you want to change your life, become a runner." -Unknown

We hope these motivational quotes on running have helped you to get on a running plan. Now you have to determine the distance you need to cover for your ideal health. Remember the benefit mentioned in the motivational quotes can only be experienced when the consistency is maintained with proper dedication. Another motivational quote has also mentioned the requirement of hydration for running without any health problem. Once you get into the habit of running a few minutes every day, you will get to see drastic changes just like mentioned in the motivational quotes on running.

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