Top 42 Life Marathon Quotes
#1. The Christian's journey through life isn't a sprint but a marathon.
Billy Graham
#2. If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.
Vanessa Runs
#3. You wouldn't train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.
Dawn Gluskin
#4. In the marathon of life negativity is never as light-footed as a dreamer's sprint.
Bryant McGill
#5. I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.
Kina Grannis
#6. training for the marathon is that in order to maintain a positive attitude about training and running, it is necessary to develop a positive attitude about life in general. It is almost impossible to be positive about
David Whitsett
#7. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.
Fauja Singh
#8. Work hard with passion and courage. Life is a marathon of contribution. You really must work hard to accomplish something ... Find your passion and get good at it.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#9. And then there's the perverse joy of subtly working in references to marathon training in daily life, say at the post office or while waiting outside my first-graders' classrooms at the end of the school day.
Sarah Bowen Shea
#10. Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
James Van Der Beek
#11. Life is marathon, not a sprint. It is a race we are all guaranteed to finish, so run wisely.
James North
#12. More and more I'm seeing motherhood as a marathon of endurance, not a sprint to the next stage of life.
Stacey Thacker
#13. Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.
Amby Burfoot
#14. In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.
Bill Courtney
#15. The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.
Tony Robbins
#16. Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson
#17. In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#18. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.
Ivanka Trump
#19. There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.
Rick Warren
#20. This is a marathon in life. You can't be sprinting all the time or else you wear yourself out. You have to make sure you're taking care of yourself, keeping yourself grounded and not letting every little thing get you worked up.
Brian Moynihan
#21. Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.
Fred Lebow
#22. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.
John Ortberg
#23. Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.
Meb Keflezighi
#24. Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that
Kathrine Switzer
#25. The purpose of life is to find your purpose. Run a marathon, sail oceans, cross deserts, climb the highest mountain but find yours!
Timothy Pina
#27. Falling apart in a 5K is painful, but it's just pain. Falling apart in a marathon, I believe you lose a year of your life. You complete the marathon feeling utterly defeated, knowing that it got the best of you, and you go home and ask your mom if she still loves you.
Jacob Frey
#28. In my sports or workout life, I like to prove to myself I can do something, whether it's a half marathon or whatever it is. I like to take challenges that scare me because then once we've accomplished it, we feel stronger.
Kim Raver
#29. Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.
Shoshin Nagamine
#31. It's about having an active lifestyle, staying healthy, and making the right decisions. Life is about balance. Not everybody wants to run a marathon, but we could all start working out and being active, whether you walk to work or take an extra flight of stairs.
Apolo Ohno
#32. But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.
Ryan Hall
#33. Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
Floyd Skloot
#34. In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.
Gina Greenlee
#35. If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek
#36. To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.
Tim Gunn
#37. Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
Mike Huckabee
#38. As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.
Haruki Murakami
#39. Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying
relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a
marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.
Gina Greenlee
#40. I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.
Ivanka Trump
#41. The biggest thing that I've learned is to run the marathon, not the sprint. By that I mean, don't let the little problems that you face in the hour in daily life cast a shadow over the larger joys that you have, over the course of the years.
Jon Foreman
#42. No drugs here, no manipulation of neurotransmitters that leaves our worldly problems unattended. And no talking cures because explicit insight is not needed. All that is required is courage: the courage to encounter discomfort and stay with it long enough to be changed by it, strengthened.
Jason Dias
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