"You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back."

-- Steve Prefontaine

#Running Quotes

“There was always something. It's like with this one, there's always something that's mad that I look back on it and go, that's pretty amazing to say that I've done that or been there.”
“It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me.”
“The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.”
“I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.4, Cosimo, Inc.
“The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.”
“What good are friends if they cant do you any good?”

Source : Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.143, Feral House
“I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.”
“You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ainâ€™t my President â€“ had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. Sheâ€™s going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now Iâ€™m going to sing it for yâ€™allâ€¦”

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