George A. Sheehan Quotes About Motivational
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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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There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.
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There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
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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.
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
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Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
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