We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

Randy L. Thurman I run for myself and for those who depend on me. I run for those who can’t and for great causes. I run for those who can but need encouragement. I run because someday I won’t be able to, and On that day, I hope and pray someone will run for me.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. —The King, from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

I started running at age seventy-two because I was tired of all the boring talk about funerals. —Ruth Rothfarb, marathon runner at age eighty-one

If you want to be healthy—run. If you want to be handsome—run. If you want to be smart—run. —Ancient Greek aphorism

It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop. —Confucius

It’s clear to me now that I’ll never have a runner’s body, no matter how many miles I run. Instead I’m concentrating on having a runner’s soul.

An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion. —Sir Isaac Newton, Newton’s First Law of Motion

Never go two days without running. —Hal Higdon, runner and writer