100 INSPIRATIONAL FITNESS QUOTES

1. By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the

go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also

work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.

- Jack LaLanne

2. The first wealth is health - Emerson

3. If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up

on the short end. - Julius Erving

4. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.

- Earl of Derby

5. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. -

Unknown

6. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to

take care of his tools. - Unknown

7. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while

movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. -

Plato

8. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the

year. - Franklin P. Adams

10. If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of

myself. - Eubie Blake

11. Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to

conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are

capable of, a blessing money can't buy. - Izaak Walton

12. Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim

Rohn

13. The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more

efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your

talent to produce outstanding results. - Anthony Robbins

14. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises

walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson

15. Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and

appreciate until they have been depleted. - Denis Waitley

16. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth

of wealth. - Richard Baker

17. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. - Wayne

Dyer

18. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed,

but the least envied. - Charles Caleb Colton

19. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. - James

Thomson

20. The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs. - J. O. De La

Mettrie

21. A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or

stairs. - Joan Welsh

22. Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy

body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. - John

F. Kennedy

23. Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. - Sasha Azevedo

24. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. - Goethe

25. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton

26. It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise. -

Pliny the Younger

27. Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul. - Susie Michelle

Cortright

28. Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best

medicine for body and spirit. - Sarah Louise Arnold

29. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the

body; the two are united. - Alexander von Humboldt

30. Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. -

Paul Sweeney

31. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training,

diet and mental approach. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

32. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they

were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison

33. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five

miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where

the hell she is. - Ellen Degeneres

34. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want

to be. - David Viscott

35. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! - Marvin

Phillips

36. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your

mind you have to convince. - Vincent Lombardi

37. The groundwork of all happiness is health. - Leigh Hunt

38. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is

the man who will win. - Roger Bannister

39. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he

exercises over himself. - Elie Wiesel

40. Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. - Walter Dill

Scott

41. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or

feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was

keep swinging. - Hank Aaron

42. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

- Henry Ford

43. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility

of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on

your powers instead of your problems. - Paul J. Meyer

44. Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and crosstraining simply gives you the best return on your investment balanced

fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun. - Paula NewbyFraser

45. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. - Alex Karras

46. It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up. -

Vince Lombardi

47. It's the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges,

and I believe in myself. - Muhammad Ali

48. If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else.

It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits.

There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go

beyond them. - Bruce Lee

49. Exercise: you don't have time not to. - Unknown

50. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because

we stop exercising. - Dr. Kenneth Cooper

51. Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

52. Running is a big question mark that’s there each and every day. It asks

you, “Are you going to be a wimp or are you going to be strong today?”

- Peter Maher

53. A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but

otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the

world. - Paul Dudley

54. You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make

it. - Charles Buxton

55. Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright

purchase. - Joseph Pilates

56. Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if

you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise,

you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. -

James Rippe, MD

57. To feel "fit as a fiddle," you must tone down your middle. -

Anonymous

58. He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. -

Samuel Johnson

59. The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but instead will interest

his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause

and prevention of disease. - Thomas Edison

60. Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy,

and fat. - Jill Johnson

61. I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes

you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see,

you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty. - T.

Campbell and Gisele Lagace

62. No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely,

positively do have the power to change. - Bill Phillips

63. Use it or lose it. - Jimmy Connors

64. Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my

treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle. -

Cher

65. People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I

think, yeah, that''s the problem. - Chris Adams

66. Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person''s physical,

emotional, and mental states. - Carol Welch

67. Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or

later have to find time for illness. - Edward Stanley

68. The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are

doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it. - Erin Gray

69. Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as

necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is

worth more than learning. - Thomas Jefferson

70. Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the

alternative is worse. - George Sheehan

71. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health. - James

Thompson

72. And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a

combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. - Julie

Bishop

73. Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the

sleep you need. You may expect to be well. - James Freeman Clarke

74. Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become

stronger. - Chuang Tzu

75. Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body

above infinite wealth. - Ecclesiasticus 30:15

76. The greatest wealth is health. - Virgil

77. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being,

and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - World Health

Organization, 1948

78. If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health

and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you

want. - Elbert Hubbard

79. Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. - Dutch Proverb

80. When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no "I'll start

tomorrow." Tomorrow is disease. - V.L. Allinear

81. A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. -

Francis Bacon

82. Hear your heart. Heart your health. - Faith Seehill

83. Just because you're not sick doesn't mean you're healthy. - Author

Unknown

84. Without health, there is no point. To anything. - Everett Mámor

85. Happiness lies, first of all, in health. - George William Curtis

86. So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to

spend their wealth to regain their health. - A.J. Reb Materi

87. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. - HenriFrederic Amiel

88. The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to

have the instrument in good order. - Beecher

89. My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is

your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it! - Jack

Lalanne

90. The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance

that you fight in life can only build a strong character. - Arnold

Schwarzenegger

91. Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

92. No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the

exciting part. - Tiger Woods

93. I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out

what it feels like to sweat. - Michael Jordan

94. I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible

as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it. -

Michael Phelps

95. No pain, no gain. - Athletic Proverb

96. Run hard, be strong, think big! - Percy Cerutty

97. A lot of people run a race to see who's the fastest. I run to see who

has the most guts. - Steve Prefontaine

98. Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just

do them. The decision has already been made. - Patti Sue Plumer,

U.S. Olympian

99. If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you

run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic

is in the man, not the 100 miles. - Bill Bowerman

100. The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to

stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body.

You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is

the will to succeed. - Jacqueline Gareau, 1980 Boston Marathon

champ