"When runners win a big race these days, they get a car. When I won a big race, I got a ride."

-- Ron Delany

#Motivational Quotes #Running Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.”

Source : "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.
“It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.”
“Love without knowledge is demonic.”
“Don't leave home without your left hemisphere”
“The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.”
“I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”
“Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.”
“But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.220, Feminist Press at CUNY

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