60 Inspiring and Motivating Running Quotes | Planet of Success

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

Christopher McDougall

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

Hippocrates

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

Greg Dening

“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

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”

Friedrich Nietzsche