Best Running Quotes to Energize Yourself

“Never limit where running can take you. I mean that geographically, spiritually, and of course, physically.” – Bart Yasso

“Fast running isn’t forced. You have to relax and let the run come out of you.” – Desiree Linden

“Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.” – Dean Karnazes

“Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.” – Julie Isphording

“Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.” – Gail W. Kislevitz

“I’ll be happy if running and I can grow old together.” – Haruki Murakami

“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.” – Patrick Ness

“We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.” – Deena Kastor

“In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.”

“One run can change your day, many runs can change your life.” 

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” 

“I always run without music. Being disconnected is what I’m addicted to more than anything. There aren’t many places where you can be without your phone and computer. I’ve started to crave and enjoy that time alone.” — Christy Turlington

“Exercise is like meditation for me. And I’m giving myself that time. . . I cannot live without it now. When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.”

“I like what it does for my mind. If I’ve had a bad day, if I’m feeling stressed out, if I’m feeling overwhelmed — it takes it all away. It’s my antidote for everything. If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.” 

“I woke up on my birthday and said, ‘I want to run 10 miles.’ I just wanted to see if I could run double-digit mileage.”

“It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect. It’s easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise.” — Eminem

“Runners just do it – they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first.”

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get out of it what you put into it.” — Oprah Winfrey

“It doesn’t matter how fast or how far you’re going. If you’re putting on your shoes and going out for a run, you are a runner, you are in that club.”

“When anyone tells me I can’t do anything, I’m just not listening anymore.”

“All runners are tough. Everyone has to have a little fire in them, that even in tough times, can’t be turned off.”

“It makes me feel like I can conquer anything that comes at me. I’m never tapped out. I’m never tired of my two kids. I owe a lot of that to running.” — Travis Barker

“Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end.” — Kim Cowart

“Running has been my main form of exercise. I’ve been running five or six days a week. I love it.” — Natalie Coughlin

“It started to become what I looked forward to most; it was the only time I got to be in my own head.” — Rob Riggle

“Just keep moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago. It’s a Buddhist saying, I think: ‘There is no wasted effort.’” — Lauren Graham

“Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.” — Noel Carroll

“Of all the sports I’ve tried, some have come and gone but running has always been there for me. It’s the simplest of things to do: shove your trainers on and just go.”

“All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou

“I feel like when I am running, it not only helps change me physically, it also improves my state of mind.”

“I love the way that it makes my body feel and it’s just my time for myself where I can get out there and think and let my mind go.”

“I’m all about breaking mental boundaries, and training for a marathon falls right into the Jedi mind-training I need.”

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever put my body through, but for me, running is a mental game. I’ve learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.”

“Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that.” — Carole Radziwill

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they’re capable of understanding.”

“Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. ”

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. ”

“My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.”

“It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.” — Emil Zatopek

“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.”

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

“Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.”