Joan Benoit Quotes

#1. Years ago, women sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and discussing life. Now they discuss the same topics while they run.

Joan Benoit

#2. There's not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn't live without it.

Joan Benoit

#3. One hour with a child is like a ten-mile run.

Joan Benoit

#4. The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

#5. My philosophy on running is, I don't dwell on it, I do it.

Joan Benoit

#6. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

Susan L. Taylor

#7. Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

Joan Benoit

#8. Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

Joan Benoit

#9. Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

Joan Benoit

#10. Running is 80 percent mental.

Joan Benoit

#11. That he's mad, 'tis true,
'tis true 'tis pity,
And pity 'tis, 'tis true
- a foolish figure,

William Shakespeare

#12. Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.

Willie Van Peer

#13. I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

Scott Bakula

#14. There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.

Joan Benoit

#15. Winning is neither everything nor the only thing. It is one of many things.

Joan Benoit

#16. Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

Laurence Sterne

#17. Sometimes Jackson thought that the past wasn't just another country, it was a lost continent somewhere at the bottom of an unknown ocean.

Kate Atkinson

#18. You can't depend on other people, you have to run your own race.

Joan Benoit

#19. When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

Joan Benoit

#20. Keep varying the program. Your body will tell you what to do.

Joan Benoit

#21. I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.

Joan Benoit

#22. Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.

Barbara Kingsolver

#23. Recognize your victories.

Joan Benoit

#24. Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.

Joan Benoit

#25. If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants.

Joan Benoit

#26. The most powerful of men can fail when they forget that a mighty river can be crossed at its source.

Clarence H. Burns

#27. Jim Ross you're a fine one to talk about how someone is dressed.

Jerry Lawler

#28. As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.

Joan Benoit Samuelson

#29. The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

Joan Benoit

#30. Love yourself, for who and what you are; protect your dream and develop your talent to the fullest extent.

Joan Benoit