“Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened” LoveLittlesMomentsEyeCareRunningDiesCareersLaughingRiskCryFailurePerfectionOver YouSweatAvid Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“And each forgets, as he strips and runs With a brilliant, fitful pace, It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones Who win in the lifelong race. And each forgets that his youth has fled, Forgets that his prime is past, Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead, In the glare of the truth at last.” RunningLastsPastWinningForgetRaceYouthFailureOne DayQuietBrilliantPrimePaceSteadyLifelongGlare Book:Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose Source: Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose
“American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” MenRunningResponsibilityFailingFailureResponsibleBlameTrackRunnersFear Of FailurePersonal ResponsibilityBeginningInspirational RunningMotivational RunningDoingsNaturalistTrack And FieldFailure In LifeGreat RunningInspirational RunnerBlaming OthersTrack RunningRunning TrackTrack RunnersFear Of FailingBurroughsInspirational TrackRunning Funny Author:Jeff Olson