Quotes About A Marathon

#1. Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

Kamala Harris

#2. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Richard Benyo

#3. Don't think of happiness and success as a marathon you have to complete. Think of happiness and success as a few steps you take each day." Ray White

Ray White

#4. The next morning, my head and every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd run a marathon through six feet of snow in stilettos.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#5. You can't win a marathon without putting some bandaids on your nipples!

Kevin Spacey

#6. Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout.

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

#7. To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Jerome Drayton

#8. You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

Ryan Holmes

#9. Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

Robert Herjavec

#10. Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it's valuable in a marathon.

Adam Grant

#11. I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Marjane Satrapi

#12. The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#13. Parenting is a marathon, and we have to remember our long-term goal of raising beautiful people who love God and others.

Kristen Welch

#14. I do a lot of marathons as training runs. If I'm somewhere and there's a marathon, I'll sign up and just go run it.

Dean Karnazes

#15. I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

Bipasha Basu

#16. Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

Vicky Beeching

#17. Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon.

Fred Lebow

#18. 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

#19. What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

Taylor Swift

#20. Man, he wasn't going to need a stress test anytime soon. If his heart could get through a kiss from her, he could probably run a marathon.
While dragging a car behind him.
Sideways to the road.

J.R. Ward

#21. Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

Ivanka Trump

#22. People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

Ian K. Smith

#23. In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#24. 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

#25. Career is a marathon race, not a 100-meter sprint ~ Deepak Mehra

Deepak Mehra

#26. The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Tony Robbins

#27. Panting like a marathon runner at mile twenty, overheated bloodhound, steam engine crawling up the Continental Divide.

Dennis Vickers

#28. Perfecting your character isn't a marathon, a race, or a competition. It can only be won in stride with daily motivation.

Orly Wahba

#29. Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day

Jack Welch

#30. We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.

Isaac Marion

#31. Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

Amby Burfoot

#32. The Christian's journey through life isn't a sprint but a marathon.

Billy Graham

#33. I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

Ryan Reynolds

#34. You breathe nonstop, like a marathon runner, but it doesn't help.

Junot Diaz

#35. It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

Fauja Singh

#36. If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

Ken Jennings

#37. The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. It's not that your back hurts, .. You get these horrible, ice cream brain-freeze headaches. So I would go in on the weekends and get these things called blood patches, where they'd shoot blood into your spine. It was like running a marathon to get it done.

George Clooney

#39. The American dream is not a sprint or even a marathon but a relay.

Julian Castro

#40. 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

#41. Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort

Aristotle.

#42. 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

#43. Writing a novel is like running a marathon. Selling one is like building a castle. You gotta do it one brick at a time.

Charles R. Hall

#44. Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

Fauja Singh

#45. The Marathon distance is very difficult to cover and without the support of all of the fans and people cheering us on and the other runners, we would have a very difficult time to run the full race. So we work together to make a marathon happen.

Tilahun Regassa

#46. At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

Pedro Winter

#47. Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.

Gail Carriger

#48. I don't mind a chase, baby. Whether it's a sprint or a marathon makes no difference to me. I'll reach the finish line eventually. I don't know what you're running from, but I don't give up easy. I'll be seeing you soon.

Aidan Willows

#49. There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Steve Jobs

#50. Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

Blake Russell

#51. If you change your lifestyle, remember it's not a wind sprint, but it's a marathon you're embarked on, and you'll be able to stay there.

Mehmet Oz

#52. People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

Ben Silbermann

#53. You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

Don Kardong

#54. Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#55. Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.

Shel Silverstein

#56. Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

Neil Peart

#57. Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Mohsin Hamid

#58. The brand building process is a marathon that takes time with patience, persistence, consistence, and authenticity to deliver on your unique promise of value

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#59. I love you. I've never met anyone that affects me the way you do. I feel like I could conguer the world, bench press a bus, and run a marathon when I'm with you. You make me feel alive and so happy I can't even think straight.

Marie Coulson

#60. I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

Michael Bay

#61. Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Chris Baty

#62. Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

Joe Henderson

#63. It's always harder than you think to make a good film. Feature films are a hell of a marathon to say the least. It's kind of your endurance. How much can I push? How much do I care? How much time it takes is a nice reminder.

Shaul Schwarz

#64. I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.

Haile Gebrselassie

#65. To maintain success, stamina is more important than talent. You have to learn to be a marathon runner.

Joan Rivers

#66. In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

Uday Kotak

#67. Sometimes it's just surreal out there, while you're running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It's an awesome show of camaraderie and community.

John Roberts

#68. I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

Jo Brand

#69. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

#70. I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#71. You wouldn't train for a marathon & then give up a mile before the finish line. Same goes with your life & dreams.

Dawn Gluskin

#72. I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.

Shannon Miller

#73. Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

Alberto Salazar

#74. Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit of the marathon. We will still have our individual motivations, but we will be unified under the Boston Strong umbrella.

Meb Keflezighi

#75. 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

#76. I love to run. I was challenged to run the New York marathon four months after having my youngest son, and since running isn't a big part of softball, the thought of a marathon was a stretch for me.

Jennie Finch

#77. Of all the races, there is no better stage for heroism than a marathon.

George A. Sheehan

#78. More and more I'm seeing motherhood as a marathon of endurance, not a sprint to the next stage of life.

Stacey Thacker

#79. Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.

Felicia Day

#80. You wouldn't run a marathon the day before you run a marathon, you need to leave some sort of surprise for your body.

Greg James

#81. My wife and I work out together almost every day. It's just a great way to spend time together. We're going to run a marathon together later this year, and that's one more goal that we'll accomplish as husband and wife.

Bill Rancic

#82. As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

Iliza Shlesinger

#83. If you don't start with crazy, crazy love, the kind of love that Van Morrison sings about, then you don't have a shot to go the distance. Love's a marathon, Danny, not a sprint.

Caroline Kepnes

#84. Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

Tony Scott

#85. TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

Jonathan Nolan

#86. To finish a marathon in less than 4 hours, you should ideally be a runner for a couple of years, have completed a half marathon, or be extremely determined and competitive.

Richard Bond

#87. Running a marathon is something I've always wanted to do.

Jennie Finch

#88. Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

Edward Norton

#89. At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

Summer Sanders

#90. Training is essential for almost any significant endeavor in life - running a marathon, becoming a surgeon, learning how to play the piano.

John Ortberg

#91. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

John Tesh

#92. In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Julian Castro

#93. When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.

Benjamin Cheever

#94. It looks like a marathon. And I'm proud that I'm not a DNF (did not finish). I'm not a DNF yet. I just kept going. I think that's been the key is just to keep going and really try to get better and try to be as truthful as I can and hope that good things come my way.

Jennifer Beals

#95. In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

Henry Rollins

#96. Don't allow one setback to define you. Your true self is beyond measure. Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Move on to where you flourish.

Assegid Habtewold

#97. A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.

Sean Astin

#98. I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

Alison Sweeney

#99. When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

Zack Snyder

#100. Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start.

Jo Linsdell