INSPIRATION

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step.”
~Chinese Proverb

"Running should be a lifelong activity. Approach it patiently and intelligently, and it will reward you for a long, long time."
~Michael Sargent, M.D.

"Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction."
~William James, philosopher

“Running is a statement to society. It is saying 'no' to always being on call, to sacrificing our daily runs for others' needs. When we run we are doing something for ourselves."
~Phoebe Jones, runner

"Running gives me a sense of controlling my life. I like the finiteness of runs, the fact that I have a clear beginning and end. I set a goal and I achieve it. A good run makes you feel sort of holy."
~Nancy Gerstein, runner

"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."
~Spanish proverb

"It is the illusion that we can go no faster that holds us back."
~Kenny Moore

"Running is the space in my day when I feel the most beautiful - when I don't feel judged by others. And that's what I want for all little girls."
~Molly Barker, Founder of Girls on the Run International

"The way I see it, you have to view running time not as extra or wasted time, but as important, productive contemplation time."
~Fred LeBow

"Years ago, women sat in kitchens drinking coffee and discussing life. Today, they cover the same topics while they run."
~Joan Benoit Samuelson

"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, M.D.

"Through running I experience my own epiphany, a manifestation of the essential nature of who I am, the man I want to be."
~Matthew Shafner

Let us throw off everything that hinders … and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
~Hebrews 12:1

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
~Martha Graham, American Choreographer

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Charlottesville Women’s Four Miler isn’t just a race.  It’s a victory dance.
~Alice Carpenter

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.
~Wilma Rudolph

A year from now, you may wish you had started today.
~Robert Schuller

Believe in yourself, believe in the cause, and believe in others ability to change.
~Claire Larson

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Well behaved women seldom make history.
~Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
~Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. 
~Edmund Hillary

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~Diane Ackerman, Poet

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you're going to do now - and do it.
~William Durant

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Ronald. E. Osborn

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
~Lou Holtz

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
~Henry Ford

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
~Will Rogers

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
~Jim Rohn

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
~Stevie Wonder

Leadership is creating a vision to which others can aspire and energizing them to work towards this vision. 
~Anna Roddick

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