Quotes
| I have been finding so many great quotes that I can't even get them all on the quote of the week. I have also been asked to archive the quotes of the week. So, here is the solution. See the Quotes of the Week to find archived quotes and see More Quotes for even more great quotes. And, of course, see the Hillrunner.com Home Page for this week's quote. |
| Just a note on these quotes: you won't find any of the usual running quotes here. You can find those all over the Internet. I wanted to offer something different, so I have found quotes that for the most part were not said by runners and were not said thinking of running. Still, I feel they hold a lot of meaning in running terms, as well as in the rest of our lives. |
| Quotes of the Week |
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| "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."--Stephen King |
| "Big results require big ambitions."--James Champy |
| "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible."--Escher |
| "Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other."--Brian Tracy |
| "Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize."--Norman Vincent Peale |
| "There is moderation even in excess."--Benjamin Disraeli |
| "All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."--Charles Kingsley |
| "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."--John Wooden |
| "You never know what you can do till you try."--William Cobbett |
| "Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one."--the Talmud |
| "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."--Maya Angelou |
| "No one knows what he can do until he tries."--Publilius Syrus |
| "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."--Billy Wilder |
| " If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."--Rosalynn Carter |
| "Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it."--Ancient Chinese Proverb |
| "Success comes before work only in the dictionary."--Anon. |
| "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."--Napoleon |
| "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."--Chinese proverb |
| "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."--Christian Bovee |
| "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power."--Balzac |
| "We will either find a way, or make one."--Hannibal |
| "When one must, one can."--Yiddish Proverb |
| "Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."--John Dewey |
| "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."--George C. Scott |
| "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."--Mary Kay Ash |
| "It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."--Queen Christina, of Sweden |
| "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."--Albert Einstein |
| "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."--Samuel Johnson |
| "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes."--John F. Kennedy |
| "What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not."--St Augustine |
| "Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."--William Feather |
| "They can because they think they can."--Virgil |
| "The impossible is often the untried."--Jim Goodwin |
| "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."--Frank Tyger |
| "Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything."--Scott Reed |
| "Don't let other people tell you what you want."--Pat Riley |
| "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."--Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton |
| "The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who would make it so."--Horatio W. Dresser |
| "The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing."--Anonymous |
| "Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best."--Reverend Oliver G. Wilson |
| "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Francis Bacon |
| "Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities."--John Wicker |
| "We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough... What do you most want to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."--Katherine Mansfield |
| "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."--Coco Chanel |
| "Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."--Warren Bennis |
| "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."--Thomas Jefferson |
| "The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success."--B. C. Forbes |
| "Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."--William Feather |
| "Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it."--Thomas Eakins |
| "How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard."--Malcolm Forbes |
| "I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."--Lucille Ball |
| "Act as if it were impossible to fail."--Dorothea Brande |
| "You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."--Benjamin Lipson |
| "There is no failure except in no longer trying."--Elbert Hubbard |
| "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."--Seneca |
| "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." -- Stewart B. Johnson |
| "Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it." -- Anonymous |
| More Quotes |
| "Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty."--Dr. Martha Friedman |
| "We only do well the things we like doing."--Colette |
| "In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope."--Dr. Bernie Siegel |
| "The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."--George C. Scott |
| "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."--Theodore Roosevelt |
| "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."--Robert G. Ingersoll |
| "The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being."--Thomas Carlyle |
| "One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar."--Helen Keller |
| "Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own."--Jacqueline Briskin |
| "If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for."--Florence Shinn |
| "Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny."--Don Sutton |
| "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."--Washington Irving |
| "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."--Catfish Hunter |
| "Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."--Saint Francis of Assisi |
| "My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own."--Elaine Maxwell |
| "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."--Carl Rogers |
| "Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."--Edna St. Vincent Millay |
| "Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."--Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it."--German proverb |
| "Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."--Michelangelo |
| "And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope."--Job, 11:18 |
| "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved."--William Jennings Bryan |
| "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."--Moliere |
| "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps."--Henry Ford |
| "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."--Vincent van Gogh |
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