“I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success – the earliest spark in the dreaming youth – is this: dream a great dream.”

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world” Albert Einstein

“Keep away from small minded people who belittle your ambitions. The truely great make you feel that you too, can become great.”

“The great appeal of believing in fate… is that it is a refuge from the terror of responsibility.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

“Celebrities make news, heroes make history”

“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

“Some men succeed because they are destined to, but most men succeed because they are determined to”

“Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” Christopher Reeve

“Don’t let someone become a priority in your life when you are just an option in theirs”

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours” Mary Schmich

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” ~Wayne Dyer

“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen

“Extraordinary people see the extraordinary in others. Ordinary people don’t see anything at all.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“If you can’t love me at my worst, then you don’t deserve me at my best. “~Marilyn Monroe

“There will be days you don’t think you can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime of knowing you have”

“The miracle is not that I finished, the miracle is that I had the courage to start.” John Bingham

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

“As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it gets harder every time. You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much and love like you’ve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back. Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.” -Anonymous

“Success does not come to the most righteous and rigorously disciplined but to those who continue running.” -Amby Burfoot

“Each afternoon I would run my demons hard until I left them heaving by the roadside.” Christopher Solomon

“I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran out of love and hate and anger and joy.” Dagny Scott

“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” ~ Paolo Coehlo

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” ~ Socrates

“If there was more courting in marriage, there’d be fewer marriages in court” ~ Rick Warren

“We expect others to do what we would never expect of ourselves.” ~ Blake Atkins

“It’s never too late to start becoming what you were meant to be. ~George Eliot

“You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough to have to.” ~Unknown

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ~ Lena Horne

“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” ~Oprah

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” – William James

“Know what you want, but leave room for Life to surprise you in all the best ways.”

“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” ~Unknown

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” ~Plato

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk

“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” ~ Sugar Ray Robinson

“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” ~Henry Brooks Adams

“A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you’ve done it you feel that you can do anything.” Anonymous

“You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face.”-Gatorade

“I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can’t run, what they’d give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I run harder for them. I know they would do the same for me.”

“There are clubs you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you wont live in, Schools you can’t get into, but the roads are always open.”-NIKE

“I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.” Parents have to take better control.” ~Charles Barkley

“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.” Ann Landers