Top 100 Start Running Quotes
#2. Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
Criss Jami
#3. Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every girl I tumbled? For every dumb thing I've said? Because if we start running tallies on stupid, you know who's going to come out ahead.
Leigh Bardugo
#4. I wonder idly how long i can go without sleep before I flip my shit and start running down the street in my underwear, hallicinating purple spiders.
Lauren Oliver
#5. My mother was born in San Juan. So I'm Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman. When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.
Sammy Davis Jr.
#6. You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. The Inspector stood up. Worried. Fonso Spalato fell silent.
'What's wrong?' he said, ready to jump out of his chair and start running.
'Do you mind if I whinny again?' the inspector politely asked
Andrea Camilleri
#8. That which does not kill you ... probably isn't close enough, so just start running.
Matthew D. Ryan
#9. Lady, you have just become a wanted woman. I suggest you start running.
Poppet
#10. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#11. A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.
Gretchen Rubin
#13. Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.
Joseph Simmons
#14. We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.
John Raese
#15. Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
Johan Cruyff
#17. If you want to play quicker you can start running faster, but it's the ball that decides the speed of the game.
Johan Cruijff
#18. If you tell a kid not to run to a water slide, he/she will walk for 2 steps, then start running again.
Brian Regan
#19. Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it's hard to slow yourself down.
Mitch Albom
#20. It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.
Kathleen Hanna
#22. What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
Johan Cruijff
#23. We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
Ian McKellen
#24. All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.
Graham Greene
#25. When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.
William J. Clinton
#27. once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion.
Sam A. Patel
#28. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start
Coldplay
#29. Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
Mark Driscoll
#30. On the day of the race, as I run those very streets, will I be able to fully enjoy this autumn in New York? Or will I be too preoccupied? I won't know until I actually start running. If there's one hard and fast rule about marathons, it's that.
Haruki Murakami
#32. An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
Carol Kane
#33. I know that I wasn't bred to be an Olympian. I didn't start running until high school, and I just stumbled upon to.
Allyson Felix
#34. Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth ... Man, I love to run!
Eric Dickerson
#35. I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.
Robert Breault
#36. Essentially, we're always trying to reduce latency. As you try to reduce the latency of the experience, you can only get it down so far before we start running into the limitations of game engines, computing, the intensity of the experience you're trying to compute.
Brendan Iribe
#37. Before making a great movement, stay motionless for a good while! If you give legs to the rocks, they will start running like crazy horses! Stillness accumulates liveliness; laziness accumulates industriousness; sleep accumulates motion!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. I can't stay. I have to go train for a while. You can come with me if you want." He kisses my nose as I laugh up at him.
"Honey, I don't run. If you ever see me running, you'd better start running too 'cause that means that something is chasing me.
Kristen Proby
#39. But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
David Gest
#40. Better start running, the Black Cook's coming! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Gunter Grass
#41. I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
Nader Al-Masri
#42. If you see a big danger ahead, don't start running immediately; because it may be the challenge that at the end you shall become stronger than ever before! Do not avoid every danger!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in, or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president.
John McCain
#44. If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.
Priscilla Welch
#45. My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart,
And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
Dorothy Parker
#46. I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong from the start.
Hunter S. Thompson
#47. I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
Fabrice Muamba
#48. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
Malcolm Gladwell
#49. Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.
Tim Duncan
#50. The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
Russell Simmons
#51. The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.
Bob Filner
#52. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.
Holly Black
#53. When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.
Daniel Handler
#54. Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever's running through you. You might start with "this moment" and end up writing about the gardenia you wore at your wedding seven years ago. That's fine. Don't try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving.
Natalie Goldberg
#55. Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
Tom Stoppard
#56. The day you start falling in love, with the wrecked homes and broken windows instead of running away from them. You will find a story that fills your soul, behind every burnt door.
Akshay Vasu
#57. Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.
Greg Camp
#58. You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.
Keith Richards
#59. If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.
Marianne Williamson
#61. The human community is evolving ... We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.
Doris Lessing
#62. EVERYONE deserves to be happy. But no one gets there by freaking out or sulking or running. So. Here's a tissue. Clean yourself up and start back at the beginning.
A.S. King
#63. Rita didn't mind. I knew she wouldn't. Hawk fascinated her. Among other things he was male, which gave him a running start
Robert B. Parker
#64. I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.
Wendy Davis
#65. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.
Deena Kastor
#66. [Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate.
David S. Broder
#67. The world will soon start to run out of conventionally produced, cheap oil ... . We [will] start to run out of all fossil fuels by the end of this century.
David Goodstein
#68. My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.
Christopher Gorham
#69. Is the rain getting the mud off of me?"
She tilted her head. A hint of laughter crept into her eyes. "Actually it's running down your face in a rather dramatic fashion. I think you'd even manage to scare an alligator."
"Before you start laughing at me, you might take a look at yourself.
Christine Feehan
#70. I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.
John Bingham
#71. I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl
#72. The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#73. I think there is going to be a whole market and we'll start to see hip-hop jewelry regularly in jewelry auctions around the world. Therefore, anybody who gets on the train early can only do well financially in the long run.
Simon De Pury
#74. Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
Don Kardong
#75. In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.
Kevin Harvick
#76. Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
Calvin Harris
#77. The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
Ed Eyestone
#78. I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.
Allen Johnson
#79. I can't leave him. I made a promise." I start to explain it, but I don't even know how to begin. How do I put it into words? It isn't possible. It's like locating the starting point of a circle. Or finding the first link in a silver chain. "I ran one time," I finally say. "I'm not running again.
Rick Yancey
#80. I can't run. I start getting twinges. If I were filmed running, it would be awful.
Ben Barnes
#81. Here is the start, there is the finish line. Between that, you have to run.
Jeff Galloway
#82. This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.
Tim Maleeny
#83. I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.
Lorrie Moore
#84. I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.
Anthony Edwards
#85. In creativity, as in running, you have to start where you are.
Julia Cameron
#86. After a theatre run, it took me a long time to start drinking again during the day.
Morgan Jones
#87. Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?
Sherryl Woods
#88. After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
Flea
#89. Writing a book with completely fictitious characters is like running a democracy, centered around a capital state. You constantly live with the fear & suspicion that one of the characters will start an uncontrollable rebellion.
Shomprakash Sinha Roy
#90. A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait.
William S. Burroughs
#91. When you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the ills of the world in your hand, and get frustrated because no one pays you any attention.
Jose Saramago
#92. Confidence is everything. If you start second guessing yourself, you're bound to run into more bad outings
Trevor Hoffman
#93. Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.
Dagny Scott Barrios
#94. There are champions in every neighborhood. Anyone can run to the very top. ANYONE! But you have to (a) start right, (b) think right, and (c) believe. Most runners get lost in one or more of those three steps.
Gerry Lindgren
#95. I believe it is better to live a dream rather than to simply dream it. The dream is the start of something greater, something that impels us to make daring decisions. And it's true that the person who pursues a dream takes many risks. But the person who does not runs risks that are even greater.
Paulo Coelho
#96. You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.
Calvin Coolidge
#98. In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water
Thomas McGuane
#99. My mind runs I can never catch it even if I got a head start.
Kid Cudi
#100. No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.
Ron Clarke
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