Inspirational Quotes and Advice

[RunningLilo]

I get so much inspiration and motivation from reading quotes. I thought it would be great for everyone to share their most meaningful ones and those they just come across that may help a fellow WISHer. They can be running, eating, or just life related.

Here's a few of mine:

"One day I will die. Until then, I'm going to run. And after that, I'm going to run some more, on streets of gold."
-Kely Braswell

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
-Confucius

“It is difficult to train for a marathon; but it is even more difficult to not be able to train for a marathon.”
-Aaron Douglas Trimble

I'm sure I'll add more later!

 

[Honeibee]

This is not running specific but I love it....

"There are many wonderful things that will not be done if you do not do them." - Honorable Charles D. Gill


Judy

 

[Calcio]

Here are 2 from the best middle distance runner the U.S. ever produced, Steve Prefontaine.

"A lot of people run a race to see who is the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace and then at the end, punish himself even more."

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

The first quote is on one of the mile marker sign boards in the Disney marathon. The second quote captures how any race can capture so many people in so many ways.

7 months to the day to the half. 7 + 1 day to the full.

Craig

 

[msblrobs]

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.
--Christopher Reeve

 

[kareneast]

I love quotes. They really help my motivation.

Here's a few:

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, if you hold that desire with singleness of purpose."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot

 

[10nis]

Peter Pan: When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about. And that was the beginning of fairies
Return to Neverland


Suppose I got stuck in his front door again, coming out, as I did once when his front door wasn't big enough? Because I know I'm not getting fatter, but his front door may be getting thinner~ (Winnie the Pooh)


Runners just do it - they run for the finish line even if someone else has reached it first. ~Author Unknown


[Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."


We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
Willy Wonka


Tinkerbell: You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I‘ll always love you, Peter Pan. That’s where I’ll be waiting.
Hook


I’d rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special…..
Steel Magnolias[/CENTER]


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead my midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino


We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Ewart Gladstone


J.M. Barrie: You can visit Neverland any time you like.
Peter: How?
J.M. Barrie: By believing, Peter. Just believe.
Return to Neverland

Everytime you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Theresa

 

[chimera]

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away -- Henry David Thoreau

 

[TXBelle]

Here are some more:

"Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit."

"Tough times don't last but tough people do."

“If it were easy, everyone would be doing it!”

And my absolute favorite and so applicable to my own life:

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin (Thanks to LittleMissMickey who has this in her sig)

 

[keenercam]

I really love "Pain is temporary. Pride is Forever."

Sunny created a window decal that says "26.2. A State of Mind."

Those two quotes keep me going sometimes.

I know that being able to complete a marathon in required pace time in January will require from me a mindset I had never sought, much less achieved before the 2006 WDW 1/2 Marathon. Having completed that, I must now re-orient myself to a new state of mind that will carry me to a marathon finish line. It is a state of mind I have never sought before. Seeking it is an accomplishment in and of itself. I truly believe it is a state of mind that one must have and maintain throughout the training process, not just on race day.

One more, courtesy of one of my heroes, John Bingham (the Penguin):

"Our running shoes are really erasers. Every step erases a memory of a past failure. Every mile brings us closer to a clean slate. Each footstrike rubs away a word, a look, or an event, which led us to believe that success is beyond our grasp"

-- John "The Penguin" Bingham

All of my life's failures and inadequacies started becoming only a distant memory when John Bingham hugged me on January 6, 2006, told me he was proud of me and that he knew I could do "it" (the 1/2). Once I crossed the FINISH line, the failures and inadequacies no longer governed my self-perception of what I could do.