Running Quotes

  • All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. ~ The Holy Bible
  • Before you love, learn to run through snow without leaving footprints. ~ Turkish Proverb
  • Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Every day I run scared. That’s the only way I can stay ahead. ~ John H. Johnson
  • Fleeing and running are not the same thing. ~ Nicaraguan Proverb
  • Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ~ Goethe
  • He who wants to jump high must take a long run. ~ Danish Proverb
  • How you run your life, that’s how your clock will run. ~ Yiddish Proverb
  • I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights. ~ Muhammad Ali
  • I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business. ~ Jack E. Reichert
  • If at first you don’t succeed; you are running about average. ~ M. H. Alderson
  • If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. ~ Dan Quayle
  • If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ~ Richard Branson
  • If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ~ Shelley Long
  • If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will. ~ John Atkinson
  • If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. ~ Japanese Proverb
  • If you see ninety-nine people running one way and three going the opposite, don’t be too quick to join the majority. ~ Author Unknown
  • In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. ~ William Knudsen
  • In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ~ Josh Billings
  • It is better to run back than run the wrong way. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
  • Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. ~ Josh Billings
  • No matter where I run, I meet myself there. ~ Dorothy Fields
  • No sheep runs into the mouth of a sleeping wolf. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs. ~ Scottish Proverb
  • Poverty runs after the poor, wealth after the rich. ~ Hebrew Proverb
  • Run as hard as a wild beast if you will, but you won’t get any reward greater than that destined for you. ~ Egyptian Proverb
  • Run for daylight. ~ Vince Lombardi
  • Running and buying don’t go together — running and selling do. ~ German Proverb
  • Running for money doesn’t make you run fast. It makes you run first. ~ Ben Jipcho
  • Running into debt isn’t so bad. It’s running into creditors that hurt. ~ Author Unknown
  • Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. ~ James Freeman Clarke
  • Sit, walk, or run, but don’t wobble. ~ Zen Proverb
  • Still waters run deep. ~ English Proverb
  • Tell the truth and run! ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
  • The horizon will not disappear as you run towards it. ~ Bantu Proverb
  • The horse may run quickly, but it can’t escape its own tail. ~ Russian Proverb
  • The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ~ William Hazlitt
  • The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~ Author Unknown
  • The world is run by C students. ~ Author Unknown
  • Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words. ~ Author Unknown
  • Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man — and after that, praying. ~ Irish Proverb
  • Two things are bad for the heart — running up stairs and running down people. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
  • Virtue: climbing a hill; vice: running down. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. ~ Aneurin Bevan
  • We must learn to walk before we can run. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water. ~ Galius Valerius Catullus
  • What good is it to run when you are on the wrong road? ~ German Proverb
  • When my horse is running good, I don’t stop to give him sugar. ~ William Faulkner
  • When the tree falls everyone runs to cut the branches. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • Whoever approaches me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it. ~ Mishkat Al-massabaih
  • Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. ~ William Shakespeare
  • You can outrun what is running after you, but not what is running inside of you. ~ African Proverb
  • You can’t run a business or anything else on a theory. ~ Harold S. Geneen
  • You can’t run from trouble, there ain’t no place that far. ~ Splash Mountain
  • You can’t shoe a horse while it is running. ~ Dutch Proverb
  • You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving. ~ St. Francis De Sales
  • You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. ~ Harold S. Geneen
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