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30+ Inspirational Running Quotes

Running is one of the most beneficial physical activities you could undertake. Just a few minutes of daily running will significantly boost your happiness and make you live longer. Some days, we runners just aren’t feelin’ it. We rounded up the best inspirational running quotes to help get you moving and keep you fueled through your next long run. This is a collection of 32 "Inspirational Running" quotes and "Inspirational Running" sayings.


As we run, we become. - Amby Burfoot
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. - Oprah Winfrey
After all, if you run far enough, no one can catch you. - V.E. Schwab
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Haruki Murakami
Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished. - Patrick Ness
Running is real and relatively simple… but it ain’t easy. - Mark Will-Weber
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
Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion. - Gail W. Kislevitz
The pain of running relieves the pain of living. - Jacqueline Simon Gunn
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. - Dean Karnazes
Run in the morning … before your brain figures out what your body is doing!
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life. - George Sheehan
Running allows me to set my mind free. Nothing seems impossible. Nothing unattainable. - Kara Goucher
Run like hell and get the agony over with. - Clarence DeMar
Every run is a work of art, a drawing on each day’s canvas. Some runs are shouts and some runs are whispers. Some runs are eulogies and others celebrations. - Dagny Scott Barrios
Running is alone time that lets my brain unspool the tangles that build up over days. - Rob Haneisen
Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts. - Steve Prefontaine
Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body. - Lynn Jennings
Look in the mirror. That is your competition.
There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner. - Dean Karnazes
Run. Because zombies will eat the untrained ones first! - Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide
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, keep moving. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
We run to undo the damage we’ve done to body and spirit. We run to find some part of ourselves yet undiscovered. - John Bingham
A good laugh and a long run are the two best cures for anything.
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived. - Dean Karnazes
Our running shoes have magic in them. The power to transform a bad day into a good day; frustration into speed; self-doubt into confidence; chocolate cake into muscle. - Mina Samuels
Good things come slow, especially in distance running. - Bill Dellinger
The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back. - Franklin P. Jones
Run like you stole something.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up. - Dean Karnazes
Get going … walk if you have to, but finish the damned race. - Ron Hill
Don't dream of winning, train for it! - Mo Farah
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