• Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right
• There will be days when I don't know if I can run a marathon.  There will be a lifetime knowing that I have.
• Pain is temporary, finishing is forever.
• ​Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
• ​Fear is only as deep as the mind allows
• The world may think you are only one person. But to one person, you may be their world
• "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."  It's how you react to the adversity that defines you, not the adversity itself.
• ​If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.
• "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
• Don't force it.  Just show up--deliberately, day after day.  So much of the rest takes care of itself.
• Suffer now and live life as a champion.
• "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories"
• A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.
• If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.
• ​The longer the train, the better the gains.
•  "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
•  "Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
•  I dwell in possibility
• "Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory." - George S. Patton 
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop - Confucius
• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough - Og Mandino
•  "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
• ​"If you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
• "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A. A. Milne
• The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding
• "Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
• There is always going to be someone who doesn't believe in you.  Just don't let that person be you. 
• There are so many subtle ways to cheat yourself out of giving your very best......Don't.​
• "Without discipline, no matter how talented you are, you're nothing." - Mike Tyson




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