"Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
Read quote
31 likes
Running quotes
Running
14.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Running
Browse quotes that often appear alongside running — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Running quotes (page 19 of 734)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!"
Read quote
31 likes
"Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you."
Read quote
31 likes
"Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control. So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized."
Read quote
31 likes
"A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way."
Read quote
31 likes
"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers."
Read quote
30 likes
"In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily."
Read quote
30 likes
"Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all."
Read quote
30 likes
"The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible."
Read quote
30 likes
"Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
Read quote
30 likes
"Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation."
Read quote
30 likes
"You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance."
Read quote
30 likes
"Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner."
Read quote
30 likes
"This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse."
Read quote
30 likes
"Every journey begins with a single step."
Read quote
30 likes
"Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails."
Read quote
29 likes
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive."
Read quote
29 likes
"When the race gets hard to run. It means you just can't take the peace."
Read quote
29 likes
"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."
Read quote
29 likes
"I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them."
Read quote
29 likes