Inspirational Quotes

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim."

"If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you."

"Ask yourself: 'Can I give more?' The answer is usually yes."

"The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest mud."

"Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness."

"Hardest step to recovery is accepting you're not the exception."

"I always loved running—it was something you could do by yourself and under your own power."

"There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner."

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

"I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was."

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo—far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

"Recovery begins from the darkest moment."

"Be patient. Everything comes to you in the right moment."