16 running quotes that will help you when you need that little extra bit of push to keep moving forward.
Sometimes it may be easy to find the motivation to get out the door at 5 a.m., set out for a long run in the summer heat or to move on from a workout that didn’t go as planned. However there may be some days where the motivation just isn’t there. I’m with you. Some days I need a little external motivation—and often, it comes in the simple form of someone else’s words.
Below are 16 running quotes that help me when I need that little extra bit of push to keep moving forward.
Winning the Mental Battle
“Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going.”
— Unknown
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.”
— George S Patton
“The voice inside your head that says you can’t do this is a liar.”
— Unknown
Getting out the door
“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”
— Juma Ikangaa
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
— Oprah Winfrey