Quotes for Everyday Runners

• Hard work, given time, will beat talent.
• Aptitude, fueled by attitude, increases altitude.
• Adversity cause some men to break and others to break records. William Ward
• We must either find a way or make one. Hannibal
• You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge. Damon Runyon
• Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Mark Twain
• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart
• It's what you learn after you know everything that counts. John Wooden
• I'll always be Number ONE to myself. Moses Malone
• When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. Bill Shoemaker
• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. Seneca
• When you're playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. Duffy Daugherty
• Only those who dare to fail greatly ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
• A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are for.
• The best inspiration is not to outdo others, but to outdo ourselves.
• Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.
• The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the others willing to let them. Robert Frost
• If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there
• When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
• Concentration is the ability to think of absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Ray Knight

• Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. Henry Van Dyke
• Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de la Fontaine
• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
• To be a winner, all you need to give is all you have.
• Sometimes there is no next time, no second chance, no time outs. Sometimes its now or never. Joe Montana
• The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions. Dan Marino
• Failure is not an option. Apollo 13
• Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a real carpenter to build one. Gary Barnett
• The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it's easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. Bear Bryant
• Happiness is being able to lay your head on the pillow at night and sleep. Hershel Walker
• If you let people see that you are vulnerable, you have lost the battle.
• The future is not something we enter, the future is something we create. Gary Barnett
• I firmly believe that any mans finest hour is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious. Vince Lombardi
• Destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Blake
• It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Darin Weinberg
• It's alright to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. Dr. Rob Gilbert
• Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never. Winston Churchill
• Success is not the result of spntaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Reggie Leach
• "Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them...and they flew.

• Many are called, but few get up.
• There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity. Douglas McArthur
• Opportunities multiply as they are seized. They die when neglected. John Wicker
• If we had no winter; the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes tast of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet
• Capture the moment, whoever you are. None of us is here forever. Adrian
• Greatness is repeated excellence over a long period of time.
• God has given me the ability, the rest is up to me.
• My life is a gift to me from God. What I do with my life is my gift back to God.
• Expect more than what others think is possible.
• The greatest achievement isn't in never failing, but rather in always trying again after you fail.
• An opportunity is like toothpast, once out of the tube, you can't put it back in.
• There is no traffic jam on the extra mile.
• Teachers and coaches open doors, but you must enter by yourself.
• Display on the outside the way you want to feel on the inside.
• Do today what others won't, so tomorrow you can do what others can't.
• That fear you've always been using as a reason not to do things--it's really part of the energy to get things done.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,
• Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker
• The ancestor of every action is a thought. Emerson
• Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Kenneth Hildeband
• The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Time is the thing that keeps everything form happening all at once at the same time.
• A wise person adapts to circumstances and adversity as water shapes to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb
• Do or do not. There is no try. YODA