Passion For Running Quotes

#1. I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running.

Gerry Lindgren

#2. Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.

Ryan Shay

#3. Many of us assume that we have to do things a certain way: ignore passion in favor of safer bets, act stoic amid inner turmoil, run on an upward trajectory of success and money acquisition at any emotional cost. But these are not rules.

Martha Beck

#4. How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?

William Butler Yeats

#5. Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

Chuck Spezzano

#6. The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild

Harry Sinden

#7. I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Cathy Freeman

#8. I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.

Jerry Rice

#9. When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

Deena Kastor

#10. Skiing was my passion. Running was a means to stay in shape for that.

Scott Jurek

#11. Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

Richard Branson

#13. The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

John Stossel

#14. Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

Nancy Lam

#15. It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.

Charles M. Schwab

#16. I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

Raoul Vaneigem

#17. We didn't keep track of how many miles we ran back then. We just ran. If you LOVE to run with the kind of passion I have for running, you will understand this. Running was my mode of transportation.

Gerry Lindgren

#18. Endurance running was my passion , my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

Dean Karnazes

#19. I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise ... it's a consistent reward for victory!

Sasha Azevedo

#20. If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

Noel Carroll

#21. There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

Gerry Lindgren

#22. We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

Robert Redford

#23. I felt the beginning of a passion, hopeless in the long run, but very nourishing, for identifying myself with people who were not my own, and whose lives were governed by ideas alien to mine.

V.S. Pritchett

#24. I don't think any man or woman should run for president unless, number one, they know exactly why they would want to be president, and two, they can look at folks out there and say, 'I promise you have my whole heart, my whole soul, my energy, and my passion.

Joe Biden

#25. When we go to school, very often, we don't see that passion because the way school is run, the disciplinary nature of it and the rote learning are so, sort of, offensive actually, that children sort of lose that passion more often than not.

Nicholas Negroponte

#26. I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

Laura Schlessinger

#27. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.

Missy Giove

#28. Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

Lady Gaga

#29. Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre." Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.

Robert Cheeke

#30. Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#31. Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

Gautama Buddha

#32. Running was a part of my hardwiring, and that's what I wanted to do. So this is what I tell people who talk about wanting to follow their passion. 'It doesn't have to be running. It can be basket weaving. Be the best basket weaver in the world. Throw your heart and soul into it.'

Dean Karnazes

#33. My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything.

Alyssa Milano

#34. The look of wistful passion in Kellan's eyes in that one brief glance almost had me running across the room to throw myself in his arms - Thoughtless

S.C. Stephens

#35. Loudly declaring our soul's desire can get the blood running and our passions blazing.

Oriah Dreamer

#36. While passion and determination are attributes that are essential in order
to drive a vision to its full potential, if they are left unchecked, they can also
turn the journey into a faith-based one driven by dogma.

Ash Maurya