I love motivational running quotes and sayings.

I’m addicted to them, and I have them everywhere.

In fact, research shows that keeping inspirational quotes and reading them on a regular basis is a great way for keeping motivation for both the short and long term.

As a result, today I’m sharing with you, dear readers a long list of favorite running quotes.

I hope you find them inspirational and motivational like I do.

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The Best Motivational Running Quotes In The World

Without further ado, here are 131 awesome quotes on running for your training pleasure.

These runners quotes will definitely inspire to go for the extra mile.

And please, feel free to share with me some of your best running quotes (if you have any) whether they’re fitness quotes about pain, not giving up, life, you name it.

“Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.” Gail W. Kislevitz “A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.” Steve Prefontaine Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. Lynn Jennings Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running. Christopher McDougall Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers “Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not demanding more from yourself – expanding and learning as you go – you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” Dean Karnazes “My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.”John Bryant “It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.” Emil Zatopek All it takes is all you got. Marc Davis “There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighbors you can’t live in, schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.”NIKE Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. Les Brown “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” Haruki Murakami “Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.” Kara Goucher It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Seneca Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. Lowell Thomas You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face. Gatorade If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Robert Pirsig If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. John Bingham When it’s pouring rain and you’re bowling along through the wet, there’s satisfaction in knowing you’re out there and the others aren’t. Peter Snell I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought. Arthur Blank “It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination.” John Bingham “I often hear someone say I’m not a real runner. We are all runners, some just run faster than others. I never met a fake runner.” Bart Yasso “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.” Dan Gable “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” Pierre Cornielle “The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other,… but to be with each other.” Christopher McDougall Run like hell and get the agony over with. Clarence DeMar Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Confucius “To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month, or even one year — but for a lifetime.” Bill Rodgers When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Theodore Roosevelt I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards. Alberto Salazar The five S’s of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit; but the greatest of these is Spirit. Ken Doherty Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Haruki Murakami Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste death but once.. Julius Ceaser Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running. Julie Isphording Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don’t think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made. Patti Sue Plumer Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb “Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?’”Peter Maher “Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.” Lorraine Moller Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine “The thing about Pre is that he ran as hard as he could every race, and if you were going to beat him, you were going to have to run harder than he did.” Bob Kennedy Good judgement is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgment. Mark Twain The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy…It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed. Jacqueline Gareau “It’s rude to count people as you pass them. Out loud.” Adidas ad “Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.” Dr. George Sheeha Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. Unknown The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. George Sheehan The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world. Sebastian Coe Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself. Shannon Miller “Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don’t have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.” Amby Burfoot

“I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.” Dean Karnazes I disagree. I look at struggle as an opportunity to grow. True struggle happens when you can sense what is not working for you and you’re willing to take the appropriate action to correct the situation. Those who accomplish change are willing to engage the struggle.” Danny Dreyer -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer; they offer every step as a sacrifice to a loved one, and in return ask the Great Spirit to match their strength with some of his own.” Christopher McDougall “A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.” Steve Prefontaine The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. Juma Ikangaa My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: “Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win… channel your energy. Focus.” Carl Lewis When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Theodore Roosevelt The greatest pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do. Walter Bagehot “Whatever you may be missing right now – a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running – whatever it is, have peace and take heart – remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.” Kristin Armstrong “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.” Priscialla Welch Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have nature and that is much better. Juha Vaatainen “You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.” Steve Prefontaine “Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Lance Armstrong I often lose motivation, but it’s something I accept as normal.” Bill Rodgers “We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.” Christopher McDougall Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington It is true that speed kills. In distance running, it kills anyone who does not have it. Brooks Johnson “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.” Dean Karnazes “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” Marilyn vos Savant “Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain’t easy.” Mark Will-Weber “How to run an ultramarathon ? Puff out your chest, put one foot in front of the other, and don’t stop till you cross the finish line.” Dean Karnazes The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records. Sir Roger Bannister “We are designed to run and we increase our chance of daily happiness when we do so.”Jeff Galloway “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” —Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Don’t fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.” Christopher McDougall “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier “Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity” Phillip Gary Smith “Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.” Dean Karnazes “What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.” James Dyson “Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.” Patrick Ness. Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight. Lance Armstrong “To be a good runner, you must first be a good athlete.” Jay Johnson “The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.” Sir Roger Bannister “Good things come slow, especially in distance running.” Bill Dellinger Some people train knowing they’re not working as hard as other people. I can’t fathom how they think. Alberto Salazar Runners don’t do drugs, they make their own … naturally. E. Neil Culbertson If you train your mind for running, everything else will be easy. Amby Burfoot There is an itch in runners. Arnold Hano “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.” Bill Bowerman “You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run” Christopher McDougall “We runners are all a little nutty, but we’re good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may not understand running, but we do, and we cherish it. That’s our only message.” John J. Kelley “What does not destroy me, makes me strong.” Nietzsche “It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.” Lance Armstrong Ask yourself: “Can I give more?” The answer is usually: “Yes”. Paul Tergat “If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.” Christopher McDougall “If you don’t have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain’t getting them.” Christopher McDougall “The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.” Haruki Murakami “To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.” Percy Cerutty “Run hard when it’s hard to run” Pavvo “When you experience the run, you…relive the hunt. Running is about thirty miles of chasing prey that can outrun you in a sprint, and tracking it down and bringing life back to your village. It’s a beautiful thing.” Shawn Found “We must wake up to the fact that athletics is not, nor ever can be perfected; there will always be more to learn.” Arthur “GreatHeart” Newton Other people may not have high expectations of me, but I have high expectations for myself. Shannon Miller “All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.” Haruki Murakami My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy. John Bryant All it takes is all you got. Marc Davis Good judgment is the result of experience, experience is the result of bad judgment. Mark Twain Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain’t easy. Mark Will-Weber Once you’re beat mentally, you might as well not even go to the starting line. Todd Williams The five S’s of sports training are: Stamina, Speed, Strength, Skill and Spirit; but the greatest of these is Spirit. Ken Doherty We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it. Deena Kastor You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done. Adam Goucher “But I also realize that winning doesn’t always mean getting first place; it means getting the best out of yourself.” Meb Keflezighi “Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy – but that’s okay, because it’s largely their fault.” Christopher McDougall I hated every minute of training, but I said, ”Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” Muhammad Ali “You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.”Adam Goucher The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am. George Sheehan The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start. John Bingham Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms. Joyce Carol Oates “There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.” Kristin Armstrong “The long run puts the tiger in the cat.” Bill Squires Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, “Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?” Peter Maher Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. Lowell Thomas Everyone in life is looking for a certain rush. Racing is where I get mine. John Trautmann Fear is a great motivator. John Treacy I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we’re all cowards. Alberto Salazar “As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who we are.” Joan Benoit Samuelson My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy. John Bryant “God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.” Billy Mills “You can’t flirt with the track, you must marry it.” Bill Easton “If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.” Emil Zatopek

New to Running? Start Here…

If you’re serious about running, getting fit, and staying injury free, then make sure to download my Runners Blueprint Guide!

Inside this guide, you’ll learn how to start running and lose weight weight the easy and painless way. This is, in fact, your ultimate manifesto to becoming a faster and a stronger runner. And you want that, don’t you?

Click HERE to check out my Runners Blueprint System today!

Don’t miss out! My awesome running plan is just one click away.

Conclusion

There you have it. You just read more then more than 120 awesome inspirational running quotes by famous runners, fitness legends, and other sources.

Got more inspirational exercise quotes for runners? Please share them in the comment section.