80 Quotes by George A. Sheehan

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.