Top 66 Run Your Own Life Quotes
#1. If you don't run your own life, someone else will
John Atkinson
#2. If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
#3. Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You've made mistakes all your life and you're going to keep making them.
Tamara Ireland Stone
#4. I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
Curtis Joseph
#5. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.
Chaka Khan
#6. By late August, I'm on my second sublet, and I've been working as a copywriter long enough to know I'm not good at it. I seem to be reliving the life I had when I was twenty-two, but I'm about to run twenty-eight, which feels like the opposite of twenty-two.
Melissa Bank
#8. 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
#9. Three blind mice ... three blind mice, See how they run, See how they runt
They all run after the farmer's wife, She cut oft their tails with a carving
knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three ... blind ... mice?
Daniel Keyes
#10. Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.
Joseph Campbell
#11. We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
Gloria Gaither
#12. It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Candice Bergen
#13. As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.
David Salle
#14. You can't hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!
Jettie Woodruff
#15. In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
Ben Horowitz
#16. There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
#17. Women are more in touch with their feelings, they're more emotionally developed, they know what's important in life, and the men run around like idiots trying to figure that out until they meet a woman that can show them what's important.
Rob Reiner
#19. Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!
live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry Garcia
#20. You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers ... you run out hope.
House
#21. You will be bitter in life, when you compare yourself with others.Run the race of life at your own pace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. You can run away from your life and your past, but there's no way to distance yourself from your own heart.
Kristin Hannah
#23. If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.
Robin S. Sharma
#24. From today onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life.
Robin S. Sharma
#25. Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others.
Sanchita Pandey
#26. However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.
Idries Shah
#27. Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.
Luke Watson
#28. So you're going to horrible places and meeting horrible people and you're complaining about it? Live your life like a decent person. Go to the grocery store, buy your own food, take care of yourself. If you live a responsible life, you'll run into responsible people," he said.
Aziz Ansari
#29. Nothing worth having comes easy is not about showing up early at the office. It's about showing up in your own life. And living inside the very moment you want to run away from.
Augusten Burroughs
#30. If the future was bared before you, would it still be yours? If the past could chase you, would you run from it? If the world crumbled tonight, would you carve your own?
Nicholas Rinth
#31. Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.
Lecrae Moore
#32. You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road ... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK?
Sophie Kinsella
#33. The problem isn't that you haven't run far or fast enough. The problem is that you run at all. You must stop, amore, and face your demons. It is time for you to take your life into your own control and put these things down for good. That is how you will be free.
Ashly L. Evans
#34. Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water's edge, diving into summer's heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore ...
Carew Papritz
#36. But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.
Tanya Lloyd Kyi
#37. The trouble with running is wherever you run to, there you are.
Joe Abercrombie
#38. We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.
Deena Kastor
#39. When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon, and say, Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#40. If you can go through life being brave enough to run toward the things you deserve, and the people and the things that you love, then you will be rewarded with so much love and so much joy in return.
Elle Botz
#41. Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
Khalil Gibran
#42. I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.
Robert David Hall
#43. Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall
Paolo Nutini
#44. 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
#45. Success is experienced when opportunity meets preparation, persistence, and prayer.
Temeko Richardson
#46. Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.
Frederick Lenz
#47. He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk,
collected his blanket
and then darted away in such a great haste
that till this date, I've not seen him again.
Suman Pokhrel
#48. Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They'll never live the way you live. Go do it.
Ray Bradbury
#49. Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
Dean Koontz
#50. Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
Rahul Dravid
#51. Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
George Chapman
#52. We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.
Jay Park
#53. When it comes to your personal life, such as love and romance, girls should take a tip from the men and keep their affairs to themselves. Any man worth his salt regards his private life as his own. To kiss a girl and run and tell would mark him as a cad. Why doesn't that apply to girls also?
Carole Lombard
#54. Be proactive; and ready to run if proactive backfires.
Jesse Petersen
#55. As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run ... What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#56. If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
Tanith Lee
#57. He tried to get the Caddy to run some of the life-organizing protocols, but they were pretty useless without connectivity.
Charlie Jane Anders
#58. I think a lot of people want to, at some point in their life, be someone else, run away and escape, in some way. We [actors] do get to do it. We have a job that allows for that. We have an outlet for it.
Emily Blunt
#59. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
Theodore Roosevelt
#60. Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.
Helen Mirren
#61. Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.
Nenia Campbell
#62. You've never in your life seen a horse run so fast! He's all power-all beauty.
Walter Farley
#63. I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.
Townes Van Zandt
#64. The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.
Jeremy Clarkson
#65. But then all of all a sudden the breath is kicked out of me and I'm shoved onto the cold hard concrete floor of my life now, because I remember I can't run home after school and tell Bails about a new boy in band. My sister dies over and over again, all day long.
Jandy Nelson
#66. Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away ... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.
Plato
