Welcome to Miles Quotes, a treasury of wisdom, insight, and inspiration from the brilliant mind of Miles. Miles has been renowned for their profound thoughts and unique perspectives on life, love, and everything in between. Whether you’re seeking motivation to chase your dreams, solace in times of struggle, or simply a fresh outlook on the world, Miles’s quotes are sure to resonate with you.
Throughout history, individuals like Miles have left an indelible mark on society through their words. Their succinct yet powerful phrases have the ability to provoke thought, stir emotion, and ignite change. As you delve into the collection of Miles’s quotes, prepare to be moved, challenged, and uplifted by the depth of their wisdom and the clarity of their vision.
Below, you’ll find a curated selection of Miles’s most memorable quotes. Feel free to use them as sources of reflection, motivation, or inspiration in your own life’s journey. Whether you choose to copy them, pair them with imagery, or adorn them with stylish fonts, let Miles’s words serve as a guiding light on your path to personal growth and fulfillment.
My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that’s going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that’s what I’ll do. Chris Long
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. James Dickey
Miles Davis turned his back to the audience when he came out on stage, and he offended people. But, he wasn’t there to entertain; he was all about the music. I kind of do that. Bobby McFerrin
As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember. Neil Armstrong
The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. John Joly
If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself. Dave Chappelle
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane. Abraham Pais
I’m not going to fly a million miles with somebody I don’t know. Adriana Lima
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of nuclear reactors, miles beneath the Earth’s crust, in pure salt crystals, and inside the rocks of the dry valleys of Antarctica. Jill Tarter
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the hell she is. Ellen DeGeneres
To serve in the modern military – or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does – is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training. J. D. Vance
Long practise in driving a racing car at a hundred miles an hour or so gives first-class training in control and judging distances at high speed and helps tremendously in getting motor sense, which is rather the feel of your engine than the sound of it, a thing you get through your bones and nerves rather than simply your ears. Eddie Rickenbacker
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor. Laura Schlessinger
Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey. D’Angelo
I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, ‘Here, lady… take your purse.’ Emo Philips
I have decided now that my mother should be the GPS woman, don’t you think? That would be fantastic: ‘Make a left in 11 miles. Get over now – I want you to be prepared. Turn right on Elm Street, I want to see if Myrna Rosenblatt is still alive. Make your second left by the Dairy Queen. Don’t go in, they’re anti-Semitic.’ Judy Gold
As soon as I was tall enough, my dad used to let me drive him 60 miles or 70 miles to work. That was pretty fun. My dad was really old. At the time, he was 82 years old. He said, ‘Can you drive?’ and I said ‘Yes.’ I guess I didn’t find it to be that crazy. Theo Von
Garage-rock eccentric King Khan may be from Montreal, but his heart is almost a thousand miles away, throbbing from Atlanta to Castle City, Mont., until it hits cardiac arrest in Kalamazoo. Khan and His Shrines warn that this so-called ‘Land of the Freak’ is where only the strong survive, but it’s a strength that can’t be measured in muscle. Anthony Fantano
You come to Oklahoma to beat Texas. I was born and raised in Austin. They didn’t recruit me. I grew up 15 miles from their campus. I can’t stand them. Baker Mayfield
I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It’s almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon, and there’s no civilisation for thousands of miles. Leonardo DiCaprio
I come from a rural state. People drive 50, 100 miles to and from work every single day. That is true all over America. Bernie Sanders
But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are. Harry Chapin
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. Bob Hope
When I was at ‘Newsweek’ magazine – which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to school – but I started at ‘Newsweek’ magazine in 1963, which was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So it was actually legal to discriminate against women, and ‘Newsweek’ did. Ellen Goodman
Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you’ll realize it’s not so complicated. It doesn’t matter if you’re running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout. Summer Sanders
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. Edwin Meese
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that’s less than 20 miles from Selma. Ava DuVernay
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented. Gilbert K. Chesterton
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres. Carol Burnett
Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles. Jeff Bezos
One cannot rule out a blizzard in Minnesota after Labor Day, and so when I travel for Thanksgiving or any time in the fall, I am careful to fly into Des Moines instead of Minneapolis and then drive the 200 miles north to my hometown. Hope Jahren
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly. Bill Maher
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I’ve ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. Macaulay Culkin
I’m thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know. Prince
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. Lyndon B. Johnson
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming. Greg Davies
At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o’clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted. Sugar Ray Leonard
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales. Roald Dahl
Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‘How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?’ David Goggins
My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad’s house on the weekend, he’d play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John. Lil Yachty
I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o’clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season. Ezra Taft Benson
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis
Brass bands are all very well in their place – outdoors and several miles away. Thomas Beecham
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have. Astro Teller
Twenty-six miles is now my daily minimum. Terry Fox
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don’t know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can’t they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn’t hold its stomach in is the pig. Joseph Pilates
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? Richard Bach
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost
The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper’s landing, opposite another island. Meriwether Lewis
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio. Roy Rogers
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened. Henry David Thoreau
My mind became agitated with the enquiry – why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? Deborah Sampson
It goes without saying that when you’re the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it’s disappointing. Kevin Keegan
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Walter Scott
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn. John Wesley
I first met Miles Davis about 1947 and played a few jobs with him and Sonny Rollins at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. During this period, he was coming into his own, and I could see him extending the boundaries of jazz even further. John Coltrane
I’m the guy who’ll drive 250 miles tonight and be at the gym tomorrow at 10 A.M., when people are still sleeping in. I’m the guy who’ll fly to Australia and find a gym. Fly back and first thing I do off the plane is work out before I shower or eat. John Cena
The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars. Victor Banerjee
When you’re a rookie, the game moves a 1000 miles per hour. But each year, you get more mature, the game slows down for you, and that’s when you realize you’re getting better at belonging. When you know where to go and where to be, that’s when the game is coming a little easier to you. Danny Green
When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel. Steven Wright
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up. Abraham Maslow
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. Jacques Pepin
Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up. Roger B. Chaffee
There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it’s like being 900 meters deep in the ocean. Bill Nye
I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. Orson Welles
Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them. Queen Rania of Jordan
But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call ’empire’ spans 400 years in time and thousands of miles in space; every continent on Earth was directly affected by it. Kwasi Kwarteng
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal… I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired. Goodluck Jonathan
No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me. Steve Prefontaine
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days – an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. Buffalo Bill
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don’t try selling sunshine and light – you’ll go broke. Chuck Jones
I grew up in Kilmichael, Mississippi. It’s a dot on the map 100 miles north of Jackson. Grace Hightower
The way Moore’s Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore’s Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren’t part of our everyday experience. Nathan Myhrvold
If you’re in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I’m not remotely laddish. I’m a grown-up. I’m vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume. Johnny Marr
I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That’s 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20. Ric Flair
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. Helen Keller
We’re all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along. Finn Balor
To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic. Doug Liman
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? J. Paul Getty
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Lyndon B. Johnson
I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I’m hitting it in when I’m coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that’s the fun stuff. Paul Walker
I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can’t find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be. Elizabeth Gilbert
There’s the Hollywood sign; there’s Griffith Observatory; there’s the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It’s 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet. Robert Crais
In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I’m never going to break the world record for the five miles. It’s partly genetics; I’m just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being? Stefan Sagmeister
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis. Miles Davis
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. Dave Barry
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. Bill Vaughan
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more. Louis L’Amour
If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‘right’ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip. Robert Kiyosaki
Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world. John McLaughlin
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination. Joseph B. Wirthlin
I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn’t run but 30 miles an hour. You made do. Muddy Waters
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children – my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six. Kim Bodnia
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. George MacDonald
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away. Stephen Elop