Running Quotes

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

When you are free, all who come in contact with you will be blessed. Some may run away, but still they run away blessed.

Believe in yourself, even if you feel like turning back at times. Don't run away. Little by little you will get closer to achieving your dreams.

Every storm runs, runs out of rain

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Channel your energy. Focus.

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

The Jews run all the banks. Well, we do. The Jews run the media. Well, we do. You know, I mean they're right about all that stuff.

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 it.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?'. The answer is usually: 'Yes'.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

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

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime.

Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

I realized I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

I got these questions always running through my head. So many things that I would like to understand.