Running
Isn't A Sport for Pretty Boys
“There
are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But
success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling
relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense
of well-being, and peace of mind.”
―
Deepak Chopra
“It
takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.”
―
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life
of Their Dreams
“Inherited
Will, The Destiny of the Age, and The Dreams of the People. As long as people
continue to pursue the meaning of Freedom, these things will never cease to
be!" - Gol D. Roger”
―
Eiichiro Oda
“Life
always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“Strike
the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”
― Robert
Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
“If
you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will.”
―
Steve Maraboli , Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Having
a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your
uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to
happiness and success.”
―
Bobbe Sommer
“Many
times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not
commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold
ourselves back from giving our all.”
―
idowu koyenikan, All You Need Is a Ball: What Soccer Teaches Us about Success
in Life and Business
“Whosoever
desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
―
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Happy
people produce. Bored people consume.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Success
means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used
in a way that served others.”
―
Marianne Williamson
“Today
is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on.
I am
attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise.
I
have full confidence in myself and my abilities.
I
can do all things that I commit myself to.
No
obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside
me is greater than what lies ahead of me.
I am
committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily.
I am
not held back by regret or mistakes from the past.
I am
moving forward daily.
Absolutely
nothing is impossible for me.”
―
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your
Ability
“The
way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
―
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
“Success
is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You
quit when the gorilla is tired.”
―
Robert Strauss
“To
dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take
action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.”
―
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life
of Their Dreams
“There
is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will
rise again tomorrow.”
―
Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
“You
see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the
very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to
be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been
seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to
love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that
encompass the experience of the amorous subject...
Love
at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly
adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a
memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize)...
this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having
had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire.
The
gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's
dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with
the other... In this moment, everything is suspended: time, law, prohibition:
nothing is exhausted, nothing is wanted: all desires are abolished, for they
seem definitively fulfilled... A moment of affirmation; for a certain time,
though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have
been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their
satisfaction).”
―
Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“Let
your creative and imaginative mind run freely; it will take you places you
never dreamed of and provide breakthroughs that others once thought were
impossible.”
―
Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your
Ability
“Our
way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Running
isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the
blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your
gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough
to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of
the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each
and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a
champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running
is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your
legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard
enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that
you can ask for.”
―
Paul Maurer, The Gift - A Runner's Story
