Lauren Groff Quotes

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

The child endures all things.

Like writing, running is so much about mind over matter. There are times when you have to override the discomfort and keep pushing. That capacity to endure and then prevail is just amazing.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it!

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.