Mile Quotes
470 quotes by 398 authors
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I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
— Frank Langella
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One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
— Napoleon Hill
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Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
— Robert Burns
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It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
— Henry David Thoreau
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If you feel you are the body type, then running can be very beautiful for you: a four, five mile run every day. And make…
— Rajneesh
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
— Billy Connolly
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It is a paradox to say the human body has no 'limit.' There must be a limit to the speed at which men can run.…
— Roger Bannister
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The mile has all the elements of a drama.
— Roger Bannister
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The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.
— John Landy
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The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.
— Hal Higdon
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle,…
— Sebastian Coe
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I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think…
— Ryan Hall
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One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are…
— Chip Heath
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How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."
— Harry S. Truman
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There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once…
— Lance Armstrong
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It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute…
— Stephen King
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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by…
— Lois Duncan
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more…
— E. M. Forster
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Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games;…
— Eugene Mirman
Who Wrote These Mile Quotes
398 authors contributed a total of 470 Mile Quotes, led by these top contributors: