Motivation Quotes

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

"Be patient. Everything comes to you in the right moment."

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough."

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

"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?' The answer is usually yes."

"The real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test the limits of the human heart."

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"Be like water."

"You have been assigned this mountain to show others it can be moved."

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday."

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"Everything is practice."

"Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."

"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 a lion or a gazelle—when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."