Eloise Wellings Quotes

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

When you've something to fight for, you get the best out of yourself.

If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

Running is a great metaphor for life. You set a goal, and then you get to work. How well you do is a direct reflection of how hard you work. It's a mental game, too. There are setbacks along the way, but the true test of a runner is how you overcome and push past them.

I'm going for the big moments - I want the big moments. I just tell myself, 'Remember the work you did, the things you went through. And keep going.'

When it's going tough in a session I have a little think about why I'm doing it, what I'm getting up for and why I'm putting myself through it.

If you focus on the obstacles, then you give them more power. Instead focus on your purpose, on your most authentic and fundamental intentions.

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

The purpose exceeds the pain.

Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

Endurance training is so mental. You just do it. You just can, and you just will, and you just run that far because, you know, I get tired at the first mile. I feel heavy and all of those things, but now I have developed, it's hard to explain... It's a very satisfying place to get into.

You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don't want to do it any more, when you think it's hard.