“You haven’t failed until you quit trying.”
~ Anonymous
Because giving up is too easy.
Keep trying. Never ever ever give up. Keep going.
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
William Barclay
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MOTIVATION: stay positive.
I mean, you can get gnarly with it and just be pissed all the time. Most of us have plenty of ammunition behind that train if we so choose. But if tough shit in life is already driving you down, why join that pity party? You might stop by every once in a while, that’s normal and to be expected. But it’s in those very worst of times when you need that positive, sun-is-shining, look-on-the-bright-side, there’s-gotta-be-a-silver-lining-in-there-somewhere kind of outlook more than ever. Cheesy never hurt nobody. Bitterness on the other hand…
Stay positive. Because being negative is too easy.
(via outwide)
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MOTIVATION: keep going.
“Even when you fall on your face, you are still moving forward.”
Often it’s now whether you fail or don’t fail—but HOW you fail. Keep moving.
“Keep Running.”
(Source: meggerspry)
MOTIVATION: extra umph.
“The difference between try and triumph is a little UMPH.”
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MOTIVATION: commitment.
“In it for the long run.”
(via MoveYourBooty Motivation)
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MOTIVATION: endurance. mental & physical.
You will lose and lose. Don’t stop. One day you will win.
You will lose and lose. Don’t stop. One day you will win. (Taken with Instagram at Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea)
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
(via wooshwoosh)
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong
“‘No shortcuts.’ For me, that means don’t skip any hills, and don’t take an easier route. It’s harder at first, but I can tell I’m getting stronger.”
Runner’s World Challenger Matthew Palmer describing his running mantra
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“Tough times don’t last.
Tough people do.”
(Source: purplebuddhaproject)
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
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MOTIVATION: taking it all in stride.
Good days. Bad days. Sluggish days. Off days. Good runs. Freakin’ terrible runs. Days your muscles feel like mush. Two miles that kick your ass even when you did 10 the other day easy. Hour workouts that fly or workouts that feel like the longest most uncomfortable 60 minutes of your entire life. Fails, bonks, upsets, slumps, torture workouts, bummers and crap-tastic flops—they happen to everyone.
But it’s not about how much that sucked. Or what you didn’t do. Or couldn’t. It’s about how you go at it just as hard the next time around no matter what. Yesterday was yesterday. What are you gonna do about it TODAY?
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MOTIVATION: one foot in front of the other.
It’s the only way you can get anywhere. Keep moving. Anyway. Anyhow.
Photo taken Wednesday morning in BK on a 4 mile morning run.
