Running Habit Quotes

#1. When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of it. Running can take on an importance of its own and become an excuse to avoid living a normal life.

Michael J. Sullivan

#2. We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.

Madeline Miller

#4. We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others.

Nhat Hanh

#5. Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Sue Halpern

#6. I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#7. Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

John Ortberg

#8. Each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

Storm Jameson

#9. Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running.

Epictetus

#10. Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti

#11. Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.

Kode9

#12. I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Giacomo Leopardi

#13. I like that 'Mad Men' is now an adjective I use to describe clothing when I'm shopping: 'I like this top. It's very 'Mad Men.'

Alison Brie

#14. It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Alan Dershowitz

#15. She had known deep down for as long as she could remember that something was wrong. What she didn't know, was what happened next.

Alice Darwin

#16. Because you're making a habit out of running away from me.

Maya Banks

#17. There are days when I go to church just for the chance to maybe see her smile at me.

Frank Warren

#18. Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#19. Why is it always the wackadoos who're so good in bed?

Abigail Roux

#20. I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw ...

Nigel Short

#21. The only human right. - He who deviates from the traditional falls victim to
the extraordinary; he who remains in the traditional becomes its slave. In
either event he perishes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#22. It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love.

Rollo May

#23. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest
sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Charlie Munger

#24. Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

Alyse M. Gardner

#25. I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Cynthia Nixon

#26. After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Mickey Mantle

#27. We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#28. I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

Eric Kripke

#29. I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Haruki Murakami

#30. If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.

James Freeman Clarke

#31. When aerobic running becomes a daily habit, strength and confidence follow.

Arthur Lydiard

#32. I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.

Taylor Swift

#33. Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#34. The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

Damien Rice