Fitness Quotes
105 Running Quotes to Motivate You to Stay Active
Are you tired of running? Does it seem endless to you? You wonder if it is worth it? We have brought you this amazing collection of Running Quotes by famous runners, sportsmen, and philosophers that will keep you motivated while you are running.
We all are running. Some people are running on the grounds while everyone is running in life. And we need motivation for both acts. We need the motivation to continue when we are tired. We need the motivation to stand up again when we fall down. We need motivation when the treadmill seems endless to us. We need the motivation to keep running even when we can’t find our destination. We need the motivation to find direction when we are lost.
Here’s the list of Running Quotes that will inspire you to run till the end. Also, share these quotes with your runner friends to motivate them.
Don’t forget to also read out the handpicked collection of Fire Quotes to ignite your soul
Running Quotes
1. “Long-distance running is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.” – Rich Davis
2. “Running is real and relatively simple… but it ain’t easy.” – Mark Will-Weber
3. “Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.” – Gail W. Kislevitz
4. “Don’t fear moving slowly forward…fear standing still.” – Kathleen Harris
5. “If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.” – Christopher McDougall
6. “Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.” – Patrick Ness
7. “Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.”- T.S. Elliot
8. “Doesn’t matter how fast you cross the finish line if you’re running the wrong race.”- Richie Norton
9. “Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line.”-Todd Williams
10. “The freedom of Cross Country is so primitive. It’s woman vs. nature.” – Lynn Jennings
11. “It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.” – Emil Zatopek
12. “The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”- Juma Ikangaa
13. “A good laugh and a long run are the two best cures for anything.” -Unknown
motivational running quotes
14. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali
15. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” – Dean Karnazes
16. “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.” – Dean Karnazes
17. “After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you.” – V.E. Schwab
18. “There’s not one body type that equates to success. Accept the body you have and be the best you can be with it.” – Mary Cullen
19. “Get going … walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.” – Ron Hill
20. “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy… I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams
21. “We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.” – Christopher McDougall
22. “Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you.” – Desiree Linden
23. “Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present.” – Kevin Nelson
24. “Runners are made when no one else is watching.” – Unknown
Running Quotes
25. “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” – Kathrine Switzer
26. “You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.” – Lemony Snicket
27. “The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other,… but to be with each other.” – Christopher McDougall
28. “Run in the morning … before your brain figures out what your body is doing!” – Anonymous
29. “Run like hell and get the agony over with.” – Clarence DeMar
30. “The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart.” – Bill Bowerman
31. “The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.” – George Sheehan
32. “You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.” -Steve Prefontaine
33. “Two joggers passed, shoes cheerfully slapping against the pavement.”- Sara Shepard
34. “Run! Life’s too short to walk. Unless you don’t know where you’re running to, then move very slowly.”- Neil A. Hogan
inspiring running quotes
35. “I started running to escape the memories that drinking couldn’t cover up”- Dean Karnazes
36. “Running is alone time that lets my brain unspool the tangles that build up over days” – Bob Hneisen
37. “I’ve learned that it’s what you do with the miles, rather than how many you’ve run” – Rod DeHaven
38. “Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.”-Marcus O’Sullivan
39. “A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.” – Steve Prefontaine
40. “No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life’s most rewarding experiences.”-George Sheehan
Running Quotes For Motivation
41. “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.” – Oprah Winfrey
42. “I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.” – Ronald Rook
43. “Running has been my main form of exercise. I’ve been running five or six days a week. I love it.” -Natalie Coughlin
44. “It started to become what I looked forward to most; it was the only time I got to be in my own head.” – Rob Riggle
Running Quotes For Motivation
45. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
46. “I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.” – Ronald Rook
47. “In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” – Fred Lebow, New York City Marathon co-founder
48. “Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable.” – Kara Goucher
49. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
50. “Every marathon I ran, I knew I had a faster one in me.” – Dick Beardsley
51. “Running is the basis of all the training that I do…it’s like an escape.” – Ellie Goulding
52. “Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you.” – Desiree Linden
53. “I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to self-satisfaction.” – Steve Prefontaine
54. “I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.” – Haruki Murakami
55. “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” – Fred DeVito
56. “The pain of running relieves the pain of living.” – Jacqueline Simon Gunn
57. “The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.” – John Bingham
58. “If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don’t spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.” – Priscialla Welch
59. “There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighbors you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.” – NIKE
60. “He taught me to run high on my toes. I will always remember his words: run proud & remember you are alive.”- Brian Andreas
61. “It’s not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.” – Hal Higdon
62. “Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.” – Jimmy Buffett
63. “My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” – John Bryant
64. “You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.” – Gatorade
65. “Runners don’t quit. We fade; we “hit the wall”; we’re sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.”- Amby Burfoot
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Short Inspirational Running Quotes
66. “Good things come slow, especially in distance running.” – Bill Dellinger
67. “One run can change your day, many runs can change your life.” – Unknown
68. “Someone who is busier than you is running right now.” – Nike
Short Inspirational Running Quotes
69. “To me, sweat is workout bliss.” – Brooke Burke-Charvet
70. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
71. “Don’t dream of winning, train for it!” – Mo Farah
72. “You can alter mood by running.”- Tumpal Sihombing
73. “Running strengthens self-motivation.”- Tumpal Sihombing
74. “The marathon can humble you.” – Bill Rodgers
75. “Now I really enjoy running,” – Bear Grylls
76. “Running is therapy anyone can afford.”- Toni Sorenson
Short Inspirational Running Quotes
77. “Your body is made to move so move it.”- Toni Sorenson
78. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
79. “I always run without music. – Christy Turlington
80. “Running is an effort to escape from comfort zone.”- Tumpal Sihombing
81. “A runner must run with dreams in his heart.” – Emil Zatopek
82. “If you start dreaming you are not running fast enough.”- Jacob Vermeire
83. “Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.” -Julie Isphording
84. “When you run, the road belongs to you.”- Toni Sorenson
85. “Running is flying intermittently.”- Alain Bremond-Torrent
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of Consistency Quotes to keep you going smoothly.
Funny Running Quotes
86. “Running a marathon is not a question of whether it will be painful, but when it will be painful. It does help to have a sense of humor, but I’m also respectful of the race.” – Will Ferrell
87. “Good things come slow – especially in distance running.” – Bill Dellinger
88. “I like trails more than roads. I’ve jumped over my share of rattlesnakes. I’ve seen mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats, skunks, hawks.” – Reggie Miller
89. “How do you know if someone ran a marathon? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.” – Jimmy Fallon
90. “It’s an acquired skill, being able to discuss your love life, children, and friends, all while you’re running! But we have mastered it.” – Reese Witherspoon
91. “Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” – Steve Prefontaine
92. “There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.” – Dean Karnazes
93. “Run like hell and get the agony over with.” – Clarence DeMar
94. “Step one to running a marathon: You run. There is no step two.” – Barney Stinson
95. “Whoever established the high road and how high it should be should be fired.” – Sandra Bullock
96. “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.” –
97. “My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.” – Milton Berle
Funny Running Quotes
98. “We can’t all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” – Will Rogers
99. “I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.” – Wendy Liebman
100. “Coming back to running after a few weeks off is really tough. It’s humbling. Nothing wrong with a large dose of humility.” – Davina McCall
101. “I love running cross country. On a track, I feel like a hamster.” – Robin Williams
102. “I go for a three-mile run every morning,” – Victoria Beckham
103. “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.” –
104. “Don’t be a jogger, they’re the one’s who find dead bodies.” – Amanda Brooks
105. “If you still look cute after working out, you didn’t go hard enough.” – Unknown
Final Word
It doesn’t matter how fast other runners are running, what matters is that you are running at your fastest speed. No matter how many obstacles come in your life, make sure to finish the race. Giving up is never honoured.
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