We rise by lifting others.

We Rise By Lifting Others

how you could build power not by putting others down but by lifting them up.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

The goal is not simply for you to cross the finish line, but to see how many people you can inspire to run with you.

For me, each race was like a hurdle that I must jump over.

The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race. The way to encourage yourself about the human race is to look at it first from a distance; look at the lights on the high spots.

A race is like a work of art; it is a creation that requires not only technique and work but also inspiration to reach a satisfactory outcome. But, also, it is ephemeral, because like a Buddhist mandala, the enjoyment comes in the creating of it; at the moment of climax, at the point when it has reached its perfection, it disappears and will be impossible to create exactly ever again. There can be no repeats; we can relive similar emotions and experience familiar sensations, but they will never take the same shape, because inspiration leads us to explore different forms.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up — lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

We run, not only because we think it is doing us good, but … because it helps us to do other things better.

I don't run anybody else's race. When the gun goes off, I must evaluate with my own body and see. Then, as the race develops, I run accordingly. So you can say that I do not have a set tactic for any race.

Racing is about understanding that pain is a sensation but no necessarily a threat, and if you continue to put one foot in front of the other you will break through your rough patch.