A Quote by Amby Burfoot

Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

Amby Burfoot

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Amby Burfoot
American - Journalist
Born: August 19, 1946

Life is a long marathon, and you have to be consistent. Anyone can sprint for 1500 meters, but you have pace yourself through your entire life.

Fabio Lanzoni

Life is a marathon and you have to pace yourself. I believe that slow and steady wins the race, so in that way, I've been training for a marathon my whole life.

Carole Radziwill

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Phil McGraw

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Tony Robbins

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Angela Duckworth

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

Ryan Holmes

I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

Scott Turow

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

Ivanka Trump

I think animation is like running a marathon, and making a movie is like a 100 meter sprint. The question is: are you a marathon man or are you a sprinter? I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Marjane Satrapi

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Ivanka Trump

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Mike Huckabee

Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get too high or too low. It's a marathon, and you just have to keep your legs moving at a steady pace.

Chieh Huang

As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.