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Life is an obstacle race

• Life must be a challenge. Only then is it exciting. In an obstacle race, you are forced to surmount all the obstacles: to jump over the hurdles, go through the barrels, crawl under the rugs, climb over walls. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Obstacles,   Haste,  Slow down,  Perseverance,  Competition,  Impatience

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Life is a series of sprints with rest in between

• We, too, must learn to live our own lives as a series of sprints—fully engaging for periods of time, and then fully disengaging and seeking renewal before jumping back into the fray to face whatever challenges confront us. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott

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Life is a marathon

• Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. Phillip C. McGraw

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Life is a relay race

• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it’s a relay race. Quyen Nguyen

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Life is a bicycle race

• Life is like a great bicycle race, whose aim is to fulfil our personal legend, which, according to the ancient alchemists, is our true mission on earth… As we pedal to our goal, we must make a point of asking ourselves: “What is beautiful about today?” Paulo Coelho

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In the race of life, you don’t know where the finish line is…

• There is no finish line. Nike advertisement
• Life is the only race you’ll run where you don’t know where the finish line is. Steve Farrar

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… and there’s always another stretch ahead

• But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Perseverance

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Always make sure you’re running on the right road

• What is the use of running when we are on the wrong road? Bavarian proverb

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Run your own race

• From tonight onwards, take complete control of your life. Decide, once and for all, to be the master of your fate. Run your own race. Discover your calling and you will start to experience the ecstasy of an inspired life. Robin Sharma
• Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win. Channel your energy. Focus. Carol Lewis

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Run at your own pace…

• There’s no race to the finish line; we all evolve according to our own unique pattern of unfoldment and, although it can be accelerated, it cannot be forced. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, refecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. Vernon Howard

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… knowing that slow and steady wins the race

• Slow and steady wins the race. Aesop

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Run light

• You cannot run the race full speed with a garbage bag full of trash. Let it go and run the race full speed. Coleman Fisher

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Run with confidence

• If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey
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Run with purpose

• In race between cat and mouse, the mouse mostly wins, because the cat runs for its food, but the mouse runs for its life. Purpose is more important than Need. Rishika Jain
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Learn what you are running from, and to, and why

• All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber

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Channel your energy but stay relaxed

• Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win. Channel your energy. Focus. Carol Lewis
• Energy management

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Use the pull of your dreams to give you energy

• Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. William James
• Dreams,  Enthusiasm

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Pace yourself

• Excessive effort can also result from impatience or exaltation, two states that lead nowhere. If you begin climbing a high mountain at a run, your lungs will soon force you to stop. Matthieu Ricard

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Winning comes from the hard work before the race

• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks — complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras – – there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about. Grete Waitz
• Preparation,  Hard work

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Don’t stop or you’ll get trampled

• Life is a race. If you don’t run fast, you’ll get trampled. Rajkumar Hirani
• Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you. Jeremy Clarkson
• Even if you are on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

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Keep going until you hit the finish line

• Focus on your vision and keep going until you hit the finish line. Don’t be one of the people who believe in their vision at first but then give up. See it through, no matter how long it takes. Russell Simmons
• Perseverance

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Don’t waste your time in the race looking back to see where others are…

• Don’t waste your time in the race looking back to see where the other guy is or what the other guy is doing. It’s not about the other guy. It’s about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you’ve got, all the time, for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
• Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Baz Luhrmann
• In the race of life, don’t waste your energy and time trying to compare with others. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes behind.  The race is long and in the end, it’s only with yourself.  Rishika Jain
• Comparison

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… for you are competing with yourself…

• Yes, there are times when the gold medal only goes to the winner. But not in the race of life, where the winners are those who are superior not to others but to their former selves. Robert K. Cooper
• Competition

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… and it’s not winning that matters but having a go

• The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race. Nellie Hershey Tullis
• Winning

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Race to your centre

• When the world threatens to flood my barricades, I run to my centre, my calm, my bliss. Alison Stormwolf

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Race after your dreams

• All our dreams can come true…if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
• Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. Patch Adams
• There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream.
• No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. Clement Stone
• Dreams

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Race after your goals

• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. Robert Brault
• Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can. Chris Evert
• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. Karl Von Clausewitz
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Race after what you love doing and are good at

• Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou
• There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart – pursue those. Michael Molan
• Expand your reality to the point where you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in high- energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you engage in every activity in your life.  Wayne Dyer
• The more you pursue what you’re passionate about at any given time, the less friction and more fluidity you’ll have in your life. And that’s the definition of harmony. Danielle LaPorte
• Go after what really inspires you. Don’t chase money. Chase your passion. If you aren’t enthusiastic about your work, then you’re wasting your life. Switch to something else. Consider a new career altogether. Steve Pavlina
• Pursue those few things where you are amazingly better than others and that you enjoy the most. Richard Koch
• Do what you love

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Race after excitement

• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. Tim Ferris
• Excitement

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Race after your curiosity

• Follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. Will Durant
• Curiosity

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Race after adventure

• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. K. Rowling
• Pursue meaningful adventures. Chris Guillebeau
• Adventure

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Race after truth

• Chase after truth like hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat- tails. Clarence Darrow
• Truth

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Race after excellence, not perfection

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
• Excellence,  Perfectionism

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Race after one thing at a time

• Confucius nailed the point: “Person who chases two rabbits catches neither. Robin Sharma
• If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.
• Focus

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Don’t race after happiness but rather let it come to you

• Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht
• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. N. Hawthorne
• Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau
• People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. Romana L. Anderson
• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• Some pursue happiness, others create it.
• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. C P Snow
• We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.  Deepak Chopra
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Don’t race after success but rather attract it by the person you become

• For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl
• Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. Jim Rohn
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Don’t race after praise

• Not chasing praise, you become more aware of your natural worth—which becomes easier for others to see as well; the less you focus on being appreciated, the more appreciation you’ll get. Rick Hanson

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Don’t race after pleasure at the expense of your well-being

• We are driven to chase pleasure, but often at the cost of our well-being. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D
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Don’t race after money for its own sake

• Money is usually attracted, not pursued. Jim Rohn
• The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it. Mike Tatum
• Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you. Maya Angelou
• When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. Wayne Dyer

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Don’t run from yourself

• I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? Golden Hawn
• Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.
• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Brené Brown
• We can run not only from our dark side but also from our bright side — from anything that threatens to make us stand out or stand alone, or that calls for the awakening of the hero within us, or that asks that we break through to a higher level of consciousness and reach a higher ground of integrity. The greatest crime we commit against ourselves is not that we may deny or disown our shortcomings, but that we deny and disown our greatness —because it frightens us. Nathaniel Branden

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Don’t run from your fear

• Breathe slowly and normally. If you run from the situation your anxiety will go down, but your fear will go up. If you stay, both your anxiety and your fear will go down. Robert Segal
• Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don’t you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it, not how to resist it through courage and so on. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Evil needs to be understood for what it is: the dynamic of the absence of Light. It is not something that one should prepare to battle, to run from, or to outlaw. Gary Zukav
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Don’t run from challenges

• I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot. Nadia Comaneci
• Challenge,   Face your challenges

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Don’t run from problems

• No problem is too big to run away from. Charles M. Schulz
• Quit running from your problems. Face your problems head on.
• Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.
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Don’t run from your pain

• Those who do not run away from our pains but touch them with compassion bring healing and new strength. Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Don’t run from your feelings

• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. Kahlil Gibran
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Stop the inclination to run from fear and problems through practicing acceptance and meditation

• Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary it means accepting it as it comes. . . . To accept is to say yes to life in its entirety. Paul Tournier
• Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Solitude is not a way of running away from life … from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday. Joan Chittister
• Acceptance,  Meditation

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You can’t run from things forever

• Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight. Stephen King

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Run from those professing they’ve found the only truth

• Walk with those seeking truth… run from those who think they’ve found it. Deepak Chopra

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Perhaps life is not a race at all – but rather a journey

• Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Nancy Simms
• Life is not a race to win, it’s a journey to live.
• Life is not a race, it is a gift. Enjoy it, don’t rush through it. Daniella  Kessler
• Life is not a race. Find joy in the Journey.
• Life is one race I never want to win, I’d rather stroll around enjoying the scenery. Aditya Chandra
• Life is a journey

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Don’t pursue life with such haste that you hurry past it

• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kirkegaard
• Haste,  Busyness

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Don’t run so fast you forget where you’re going

• Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going. Nancy Simms

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Don’t live each day as a constant chase

• Experiencing each day, open to new possibilities – versus attaching to a fixed plan and a constant chase – is being awake in our human experience. Cat Li Stevenson

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Realise what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here

• If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, and what you are running toward is already here. Gangaji

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Stop constantly chasing the finish line

• I have been running so sweaty my whole life, urgent for a finish line, and I have been missing the rapture this whole time of being forever incomplete. Alanis Morissette

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Avoid the rat race

• The rat racer’s illusion is that reaching some future destination will bring him lasting happiness; he does not recognize the significance of the journey. Tal Ben-Shahar
• The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin

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Life is not about how fast you run but how well you bounce

• Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. Vivian Komori

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Run wild with others

• What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. Robert Brault
• When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. Patch Adams

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Run barefoot through the grass

• My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. Leslie Grimutter

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Human society is a race

• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. G. Wells
• We are in a race between cooperation and catastrophe, and the threat is outrunning our response. Sam Nunn

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• A bachelor is a man who never chases a woman he can’t outrun.
• A girl never pursues a man; but then a mousetrap never pursues a mouse. Ronnie Barker
• My husband chased me until I caught him. Pia Zadora
• Life is one race I never want to win, I’d rather stroll around enjoying the scenery. Aditya Chandra

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