Top 100 Quotes About Running
#1. It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.
Dolly Parton
#3. 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
#4. Everyone runs away from something, but who are you running to? Who are you running with? Why are you running for? Why run at all?
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#5. Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Harold Kushner
#6. I saw hum run for thr first time at Wednesday's trining session. Until then, I wasn't aware Usain Bolt was my running coach
Miranda Kenneally
#7. I don't begrudge rich people running for office. God knows that FDR and JFK both came from very wealthy families but I think did more to help impoverished Americans than anybody else.
Julie Roginsky
#8. His eyes were exactly the color of that gleaming golden-brown moss you see on stones under the clear water of running brooks.
Eleanor Cameron
#9. When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!
Louis Tomlinson
#10. Even if it is true that all cultures share a common morality, why does this prove a supreme intelligence? After all, don't we humanists sometimes claim that there is a common thread of humanistic values running through history across cultural and religious lines?
Dan Barker
#11. Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi
#12. A level of no more than 350 ppm is still feasible, with the help of reforestation and improved agricultural practices, but just barely - time is running out.
James Hansen
#13. When you run in the morning, you gain time. It's like stretching 24 hours into 25. You may need less sleep and get up earlier, but if you can get by that, running early seems to expand the day.
Fred Lebow
#14. There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#15. By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.
Jeremy Collier
#16. I raised that kid like I was running an egg-and-spoon race through a minefield, and he was the egg.
Jonathan Lethem
#17. I'll tell you what," he says, running his thumb over my lips. "I've been wanting to kiss you for a long time. And I've been wanting to do a hell of a lot more.
Karina Halle
#18. I want you to know," she whispered to the wind, to the earth, to the body far beneath her, "that you were right. You were right. I am a coward. And I have been running for so long that I've forgotten what it is to stand and fight.
Sarah J. Maas
#19. I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday ...
John Mayer
#20. The time you've got me running. The time, you've got me tired. Well I've got more for the world than this.And I've got love that I need to give.
Tegan Quin
#21. When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C.S. Lewis
#22. of myself right off the bat? If that doesn't send her running back to me, I don't know what will.
April Brookshire
#23. Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
Flea
#24. She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.
Henry Miller
#25. We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
John Astin
#26. The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.
Rob Walton
#27. Her god is just like a Chinese parent, never running out of excuses to love a son.
Yiyun Li
#28. In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
Nancy Gibbs
#29. Disney World?" Ari felt like his head was about to explode. "Disney World?" His gravelly voice rose into a harsh shriek. "They're not on vacation! They're on the run! They're running for their lives! Death is following them like a bullet, and they're on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?
James Patterson
#30. It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.
Pico Iyer
#31. I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
Veronica Webb
#32. Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late
Amy Reed
#33. I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.
Calvin Johnson
#34. As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.
Eli Manning
#35. Enjoyed watching the quivers running through her flesh.
Morris Kenyon
#36. Whatever we do, don't let's have any running. Especially not before supper; and not too soon after it neither.
C.S. Lewis
#37. A giddy feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it - like running a dead-end maze - no way out - it couldn't come to a happy conclusion and yet I was doing it anyway because it was all I could think of to do.
Tim O'Brien
#38. There's more to marathon day than running long. Learning how your body reacts to the early alarm, light breakfast and warm-up is key. Minimize surprises come race day. Run long the same time of day as the race.
Gina Greenlee
#39. I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.
James McNerney
#40. I want to have a movie where people's eyes are glued to the screen, not when they're running from the screen.
Rod Lurie
#41. I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.
John Harrison
#42. One of the beautiful things about running is that it is direct and elegant. The formula is simple: put one foot in front of the other. It doesn't take much to figure out that if you want to improve sprint speed, you run faster. If you want to improve distance-running performance, you run farther.
Bernd Heinrich
#43. Because running fast is more fun than running slow.
Frank Shorter
#44. My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half.
Bill Burr
#45. If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
Yasmin Mogahed
#46. I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
Utah Phillips
#47. Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.
Suzanne Johnson
#48. I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.
Roger Goodell
#49. If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?"
"Do I know? [ ... ] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.
Ellis Peters
#50. It's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.
Sonja Henie
#51. Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Hedy Lamarr
#52. I was running away from dating for the sake of running because I had gotten all too used to being on my own and not having to deal with anyone else's crap, be it good crap or bad crap.
Stephanie Celeste Perkins
#53. She got up , walked around the table, and gave him a lingering hug, running her fingers through the back of his hair. She'd been finding more excuses to hug him lately.
"What was that for?" Dill asked.
"Because you looked like your heart stepped on a Lego.
Jeff Zentner
#54. My mouth kept running without checking in with my brain. My heart maybe, but not my brain.
Jim Butcher
#55. If you keep running from me, you're never going to figure out what's
really going on.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#56. I didn't know what to do, there was a feeling of time running out and a loss of momentum, of opportunities wasted.
Jon McGregor
#57. Whatever the Garden had once been, now it was seething with corruption. Abundant life. It makes me laugh, in retrospect. Mr. Faust, did you know that there's a medical term for abundant life? For cellular life bursting out of control and running wild.
Craig Schaefer
#58. The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running.
Jonathan Keltz
#59. The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time.
Tom Glavine
#61. Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless.
Neal Stephenson
#62. I give myself to you." she whispered.
"No. Not yet," he sighed.
"If not now, when?" ... "Time might be running out for me. For us.
Melissa De La Cruz
#63. We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.
George Steinbrenner
#64. When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted.
Criss Jami
#65. It's like saying you're fixed in the past, and
you're running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of
something new
Priscille Sibley
#66. Intelligence...[is] not marathon rac[e]: there is no fixed criteria for success, no start or finish lines -- and running sideways or backwards, might secure victory.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#67. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
John Climacus
#68. You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?
CLAMP
#69. And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#70. Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
Meat Loaf
#71. Im running in a race and people are on the other track, I'm running with myself
Shahrukh Khan
#72. WHEN ASKED, CHARLENE had always explained away her life as a series of false starts that finally had disqualified her from running the race.
Reif Larsen
#73. Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.
Sam Altman
#74. It's very important that we instill some respect for the parents. In America especially, the kids are unruly, screaming at Mommy and Daddy, running the show.
Ziggy Marley
#75. Like the good Reverend King
I too 'have a dream'
but when I wake up
I forget it and
remember I'm running late for work.
Paul Beatty
#76. There was no better end than Lance Alworth and no better lineman than Ron Mix. Those are Hall of Fame guys. There was no better guard than Walt Sweeney and no better pair of running backs than Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe.
Sid Gillman
#77. Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes
#78. I do feel like there are the pop stars of the world and then I'm like their dirty little sister, running around with sh*t on my face in combat boots because I can't walk in heels.
Kesha
#79. The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.
Ayn Rand
#80. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.
Andrew Greeley
#81. I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as much as they are running from something they can't tolerate in their spouse.
Gary L. Thomas
#82. Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.
Don Kardong
#83. He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
Michael Lewis
#84. What the Chronics are - or most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can't be repaired, flaws born in, or flaws beat in over so many years of the guy running head-on into solid things that by the time the hospital found him he was bleeding rust in some vacant lot.
Ken Kesey
#85. Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#86. I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.
Artie Shaw
#87. I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.
Tatiana Maslany
#88. Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.
Stefan Zweig
#89. With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
Gary Weiss
#90. If I run towards you, you should be running towards me!
Lee Bo-na
#91. Running gives me a lot of pleasure. It's something I'll always do, as long as I can.
Paula Radcliffe
#92. You know how I feel about you constantly running away from your problems. It's not healthy. And they always catch up to you sooner or later.
Monica Murphy
#93. My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#94. I go running when I have to. When the ice cream truck is doing sixty.
Wendy Liebman
#95. Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
Patricia Heaton
#96. I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
Mike White
#97. The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
Martin Luther
#98. I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'
Marianne Williamson
#99. My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
Abbey Clancy
#100. Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create. Philosophers have proclaimed this for thousands of years just as vehemently as we insist upon ignoring it generation after generation.
Caitlin Doughty
