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Kara Goucher: Progress


Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.

Kara Goucher

 

World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka - ...

World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka – Kara Goucher at the Victory Ceremony for the Women’s 10000 Metres (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

American Indian Proverb: Asleep…


“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo”
American Indian Proverb

 

Abraham Lincoln: Cowards


English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth Presid...

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Directly, indirectly by Martin Luther King Jr.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. ”

 

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

 
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

 

Frank Shorter: Racing…


English: Frank Shorter, 2002

English: Frank Shorter, 2002 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It’s part of racing.

Frank Shorter, U.S. Olympic Marathoner 

Dean Karnazes: Running


English: Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes si...

English: Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes signs books at the Napa Valley Marathon pre-race expo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

Dean Karnazes, ultrarunner 

Abraham Lincoln: Tact


Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the US (1809-1865)

 

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth Presid...

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States. Latviešu: Abrahams Linkolns, sešpadsmitais ASV prezidents. Српски / Srpski: Абрахам Линколн, шеснаести председник Сједињених Америчких Држава. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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