Mike Mason
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Motivational Quotes part oneWhatever does not kill me will make me stronger (Nietzsche)
A child of Five would understand this. Send for a child of Five (G Marx)
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped (G Marx)
What the F@@@ was that (Mayor of Hiroshima)
Make mine a double (K Cadman)
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Mike
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Karl C
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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Mike Mason
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Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win."
- Tom Fleming's Boston Marathon training sign on his wall
"Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting. 90 percent of it is slog and drudge."
- Dave Bedford, English distance runner who occasionally put in 200 miles a week in training
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Karl C
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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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Mike Mason
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"Suffering is our non-acceptance to what is" -Buddha
"Without difficulties life would be like a stream without rocks or curves" -Tao of Pooh
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." -- Henry Miller
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Mike
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Stress Head
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A personal best is a moving target,
It never lets you bask in it's glory,
And it never lets you take the rest of the week off.
Because the moment you get there, is the moment the next run starts.
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Mike Mason
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Pain is temporary. Quitting is forever.
--Lance Armstrong
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Karl C
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Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbeatable, and we need to be taught that.
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Mike Mason
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If at first you don't suceed, so much for sky-diving!
Repartee is what you wish you had said.
I hate to spread rumours but what else can you do with them?
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
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Karl C
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Don't give me this Star Trek crap, it's too early in the morning.
(Lister - Red Dwarf)
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Mike Mason
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"You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming." - Frank Shorter
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Karl C
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"If you want to win something, run the 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run the marathon."
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Karl C
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"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."
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Mike Mason
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'At my command unleash hell......' Maximus Gladiator
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mikey
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No matter how motivating the quotation - Actions speak louder than words : Mike E Jordan
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Karl C
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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Mike Mason
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke
Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown
The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
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Karl C
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The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes.
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Mike Mason
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Ah for God's sake Karl where the hell did that come from - source name please.....
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jacklarge
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MM,
Karl's in Red Dwarf mode. I think it was another quote from Holly (see my sig).
Cheers,
John.
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Karl C
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Karl's in post-marathon high syndrome.
Wait till Tuesday when my endorphines hit rock bottom.....
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Mike Mason
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John, thanks - I found it on Google......
Karl, you are a sad git...
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Mike
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jacklarge
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No problem. Haven't had a post marathon high yet so this is about as motivational a quote as I can muster:
| Quote: | "That's about 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10."
Mr Wolf, Pulp Fiction |
Cheers,
John.
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Mike Mason
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If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have taken Him completely by surprise. ~P.Z. Pearce
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Mike
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mikey
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It's better to lead by example, than lead from the front ~ Mike E Jordan
"A beginners guide to group running "
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Karl C
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When English Poet Walter Savage Landor said..
"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."
...he was talking about going AWOL at a Benfleet Marshall spot, except he was wrong about there being no suffering !
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Karl C
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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.
Max Depree
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Mike Mason
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"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay
there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man
must constantly exceed his level." -Bruce Lee
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Mike
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Mike Mason
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"Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks you, ‘Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?'" - Peter Maher
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Karl C
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The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.
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Karl C
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And it was morning.
And i found myself mourning
For a childhood that i thought had disappeared
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Graham
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Last one back to the club house is buying.
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Mike Mason
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Graham - Excellent way of improving everybody's PB's I would say......I would have to add 'and the biscuits are on me.....' of course
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Mike
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Karl C
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Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
Joanna Field
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Mike Mason
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This is brilliant:
"Why couldn't Pheiddipedes have died at 20 miles?."
- Frank Shorter, 1970
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Mike Mason
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the widsom to choose correctly....
Woody Allen
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