Runner Motivational Quotes

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Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.
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Dagny Scott Barrios (Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance)
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WINNER:is A Runner who β€œWins Inspite Of Ninety Nine Excellent Runners!
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Sujit Lalwani (Life Simplified!)
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Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth function of outsideness – that in every generation there are a few souls, call them lucky or cursed, who are simply born not belonging, who come into the world semi-detached, if you like, without strong affiliation to family or location or nation or race; that there may even be millions, billions of such souls, as many non-belongers as belongers, perhaps; that, in sum, the phenomenon may be as β€œnatural” a manifestation of human nature as its opposite, but one that has been mostly frustrated, throughout human history, by lack of opportunity. And not only by that: for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainly, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we pretend to be motivated by loyalties and solidarities we do not really feel, we hide our secret identities beneath the false skins of those identities which bear the belongers’ seal of approval. But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks. What we forbid ourselves we pay good money to watch, in a playhouse or a movie theater, or to read about between the secret covers of a book. Our libraries, our palaces of entertainment tell the truth. The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveler, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time.
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Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
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If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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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. When you're angry, a run can be a sharp slap in the face. When happy, a run is your song. And when your running progresses enough to become the chrysalis through which your life is viewed, motivation is almost beside the point. Rather, it's running that motivates you for everything else the day holds.
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Dagny Scott Barrios (Runner's World Complete Book of Women's Running: The Best Advice to Get Started, Stay Motivated, Lose Weight, Run Injury-Free, Be Safe, and Train for Any Distance)
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You are strong because of what you overcame, brave because of what you defeated, fierce because of what you mastered, and powerful because of what you conquered.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Chase your dreams and your nightmares will grow tired of chasing you.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Turn your failures into lessons, your obstacles into opportunities, your tragedies into triumphs, and in no time you will turn your dreams into reality.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Critics are loud, but success is louder.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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...Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway....They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!
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John L. Parker Jr. (Once a Runner)
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Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Showing up begins long before you stand at the start. Prove yourself an exception in a world where people talk more than act. Intent without follow-through is hollow. Disappoint yourself enough times and empty is how you feel. Make yourself proud. Fill yourself up. Show up.
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Gina Greenlee (Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road)
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Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
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Plato
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If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is easier to move mountains using God's hands.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Stars are born out of dark moments.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Losing teaches you how to win; winning teaches you how not to lose.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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...for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that disruptive, anti-social force, so that we mostly conform, we pretend to be motivated by loyalties and solidarities we do not really feel, we hide our secret identities beneath the false skins of those identities which bear the belongers' seal of approval. But the truth leaks out in our dreams; alone in our beds (because we are all alone at night, even if we do not sleep by ourselves), we soar, we fly, we flee. And in the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celbrate the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks. What we forbid ourselves we pay good money to watch, in a playhouse or movie theatre, or to read about between the secret covers of a book. Our libraries, our palaces of entertainment tell the truth. The tramp, the assassin, the rebel, the thief, the mutant, the outcast, the delinquent, the devil, the sinner, the traveller, the gangster, the runner, the mask: if we did not recognize in them our least-fulfilled needs, we would not invent them over and over again, in every place, in every language, in every time.
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Salman Rushdie (The Ground Beneath Her Feet)
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If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The hardest part of doing anything new is finding the courage to decide to at least try.
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Bruce Van Horn (You CAN Go the Distance! Marathon Training Guide: Advice, Plans & Motivation for All Runners)
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If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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People conceptualize conditioning in different ways," he said. "Some think it's a ladder straight up. Others see plateaus, blockages, ceilings. I see it as a geometric spiraling upward, with each spin of the circle taking you a different distance upward. Some spins may even take you downward, just gathering momentum for the next upswing. Sometimes you will work your fanny off and see very little gain; other times you will amaze yourself and not really know why.
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John L. Parker Jr. (Once a Runner)
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It's a simple choice! We can all be good boys and wear our letter sweaters around and get our little degrees and find some nice girl to settle, you know, down with... Take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care... Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the hearts of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messengers delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race satan himslef till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straight away... They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a guy, show them a clean pair of heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet! We can, by god, let out demons loose and just wail on!
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John L. Parker Jr. (Once a Runner)
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If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.
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Markus Zusak
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Motivation helps us to get through pain and discomfort and make us the best runner in life.
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Kishore Bansal
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Shatter your fears and you will shatter records.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A star earns the right to shine the day it is born.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Breaking through the glass ceiling is only possible if you are stronger than glass.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird does not give up flying today because it couldn't find any worms yesterday.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are a seed; that is why God plants you in adversity when He wants you to grow.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Yesterday says, β€œForget me, but learn from me.” Today says, β€œEmbrace me, yet utilize me.” Tomorrow says, β€œAnticipate me, then prepare for me.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird only conquers the sky when it has mastered enough courage to lose sight of the ground.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Instead of saying "I can’t do that," I want you to start saying "I can’t do that, yet!
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Bruce Van Horn (You CAN Go the Distance! Marathon Training Guide: Advice, Plans & Motivation for All Runners)
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In order for a seed to rise, it must be buried in dirt; likewise, in order for the great to rise they must be buried in adversity.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Your mind is a reservoir of potential; your heart an ocean of strength; your soul a well of talents; and your body a vessel of power.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The Runner’s Prayer I pray that I may run, Until my dying day. And when it comes to my last race, I then most humbly pray: When checking in for the Lord’s great race, And standing there a sinner, That God in his mercy finds me, Qualified to enter.
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Randy L. Thurman (One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step!)
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If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Making these choices [to attend school instead of skipping], as it turned out, wasn't about willpower. I always admired people who β€œwilled” themselves to do something, because I have never felt I was one of them. If sheer will were enough by itself, it would have been enough a long time ago, back on University Avenue, I figured. It wasn't, not for me anyway. Instead, I needed something to motivate me. I needed a few things that I could think about in my moments of weakness that would cause me to throw off the blanket and walk through the front door. More than will, I needed something to inspire me. One thing that helped was a picture I kept in mind, this image that I used over and over whenever I was faced with these daily choices. I pictured a runner running on a racetrack. The image was set in the summertime and the racetrack was a reddish orange, divided in white racing stripes to flag the runners’ columns. Only, the runner in my mental image did not run alongside others; she ran solo, with no one watching her. And she did not run a free and clear track, she ran one that required her to jump numerous hurdles, which made her break into a heavy sweat under the sun. I used this image every time I thought of things that frustrated me: the heavy books, my crazy sleep schedule, the question of where I would sleep and what I would eat. To overcome these issues I pictured my runner bolting down the track, jumping hurdles toward the finish line. Hunger, hurdle. Finding sleep, hurdle, schoolwork, hurdle. If I closed my eyes I could see the runner’s back, the movement of her sinewy muscles, glistening with sweat, bounding over the hurdles, one by one. On mornings when I did not want to get out of bed, I saw another hurdle to leap over. This way, obstacles became a natural part of the course, an indication that I was right where I needed to be, running the track, which was entirely different from letting obstacles make me believe I was off it. On a racing track, why wouldn't there be hurdles? With this picture in mindβ€”using the hurdles to leap forward toward my diplomaβ€”I shrugged the blanket off, went through the door, and got myself to school.
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Liz Murray (Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard)
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Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is impossible to make your own luck without the ingredient of hard work.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Step up your game and success will step up to you.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Carving your own path gets you to greatness quicker than following someone else's trail.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Walking on water requires feet of faith.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Believe in yourself, not in your critics.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The louder your β€œI can” the closer your β€œI've done it!
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Small steps of faith add up to great leaps of success.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Small steps add up to complete big journeys.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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There is no cure for ambition other than success.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A star that is determined to shine cannot be hidden, not even by darkness.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A star doesn’t need words to tell the world what it does; it just shines.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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You have not conquered anyone significant until you conquer yourself.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.
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Matshona Dhliwayo
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The week before the marathon, sleep well. If normally you β€œget by” with five hours but require seven, make sure you get seven every night. The sleep you get the week leading up to the marathon is more important than the night before. The night before, you probably won’t sleep well due to anxiety, excitement and anticipation.
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Gina Greenlee (The Whole Person Guide to Your First Marathon: A Mind Body Spirit Companion)
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World-class runners, of course, want to outdo their closest rivals, but for your average, everyday runner, individual rivalry isn't a major issue. I'm sure there are garden-variety runners whose desire to beat a particular rival spurs them on to train harder. But what happens if their rival, for whatever reason, drops out of the competition? Their motivation for running would disappear or at least diminish, and it'd be hard for them to remain runners for long. Most ordinary runners are motivated by an individual goal, more than anything: namely, a time they want to beat. As long as he can beat that time, a runner will feel he's accomplished what he set out to do, and if he can't then he'll feel he hasn't. Even if he doesn't break the time he'd hoped for, as long as he has the sense of satisfaction at having done his very best-- and, possibly, having made some significant discovery about himself in the process-- then that in itself is an accomplishment, a positive feeling he can carry over to the next race.
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Haruki Murakami (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
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The moment before the gun goes off is always the most silent. Your world is quiet, but it is not calm. The runners around you bounce and flex and relax, flex and relax. They slap their faces for motivation, they look to the sky and mumble prayers to God. The coaches shout instructions and the teammates cheer as do the fans in the stands, but you cannot hear because you are somewhere else, somewhere deep inside, preparing your body to deal with the coming pain, the breath sucked from you, your limbs on fire and the voices that won't let you stop. They say keep moving, it gets better, it will be better if you can only break through this pain. They say there's another life after this torture, a new level, just keep breathing. Then the gunshot and your body no longer belongs to you. Yes, you are there, you are present but you are no longer in control. Whatever happens from this point happens and all you can do, all you must do now is breathe, keep breathing, don't lose your nerve, don't choke, no matter how much it hurts, don't stop breathing otherwise it will all be over before it's time. They cheer for me. I can't breathe. Harvard isn't going to know what hit them, I hear. I can't breathe. We are the champions, I hear, we are the champions, they sing around me. I can't breathe. Your personal best by a long shot. That's Coach Erickson's voice. That's my boy. It's my father. It's like I'm dying, trying to hold on. My body says oh no, and my knees buckle but so many arms are around me, they hold me up. The voices they say breathe, keep breathing. They bring me water, they bring me something sweet and then they lay me down in the soft grass where I feel the blades against my tingling skin.
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Uzodinma Iweala (Speak No Evil)