The 35+ Best Short and Inspirational Running Quotes

Short and Inspirational Running Quotes – The term running can mean many things. It can refer to running away from something, running to something, or just the act of running. There are plenty of ways to interpret the act of running and with it, comes several types of memorable lines. Running, literally or metaphorically is not something that everyone does, but these Short and Inspirational Running Quotes can help bring a different and thought-provoking perspective:

• “Running is therapy anyone can afford.”
  – Toni Sorenson
  
• “One run can change your day; many runs can change your life.”
  
• “Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”
  – Oprah Winfrey
  
• “I don’t run to add days to my life, I run to add life to my days.”
  – Ronald Rook
  
• “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up.”
  – Dean Karnazes
  
• “Run hard when it’s hard to run”
  – Pavvo
  
• “When you run, the road belongs to you.”
  – Toni Sorenson
  
• “Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.”
  – Gail W. Kislevitz
  
• “Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that.”
  – Carole Radziwill
  
• “Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.”
  – Patrick Ness

Other Short and Inspirational Running Quotes

• “A runner must run with dreams in his heart.”
  – Emil Zatopek
  
• “Run like hell and get the agony over with.”
  – Clarence DeMar
  
• “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
  – Will Rogers
  
• “Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?’”
  – Peter Maher
  
• “Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain’t easy.”
  – Mark Will-Weber
  
• “The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.”
  – George Sheehan
  
• “Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.”
  – Dean Karnazes
  
• “Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that’s how we’ll know life is finally finished.”
  – Patrick Ness.
  
• “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
  – Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  
• “A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest. I run to see who has the most guts.”
  – Steve Prefontaine
  
• “You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.”
  – Adam Goucher
  
• “We all know that if you run, you are pretty much choosing a life of success because of it.”
  – Deena Kastor
  
• “All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
  – Haruki Murakami
  
• “If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.”
  – Emil Zatopek
  
• “If you don’t think you were born to run you’re not only denying history. You’re denying who you are.”
  – Christopher McDougall
  

Additional Lines About Running

• “There is something magical about running; after a certain distance, it transcends the body. Then a bit further, it transcends the mind. A bit further yet, and what you have before you, laid bare, is the soul.”
  – Kristin Armstrong
  
• “The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.”
  – George Sheehan
  
• “When you experience the run, you…relive the hunt. Running is about thirty miles of chasing prey that can outrun you in a sprint, and tracking it down and bringing life back to your village. It’s a beautiful thing.”
  – Shawn Found
  
• “Running! If there’s any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can’t think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.”
  – Joyce Carol Oates
  
• “You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn’t live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run”
  – Christopher McDougall
  
• “What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.”
  – James Dyson
  
• “Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running.”
  – Julie Isphording
  
• “I run because it’s so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can’t. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you’re capable of so much more than you thought.”
  – Arthur Blank
  
• “I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put one foot in front of the other, and come to the same conclusion I did: I run because it always takes me where I want to go.”
  – Dean Karnazes
  
• “We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”
  – Christopher McDougall
  
• “The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records. “
  – Sir Roger Bannister

Find more inspirational quotes with our “Starting Over Quotes” and “Broken Trust Quotes.”