50 Fitness Quotes

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1. Planting a garden, weeding a garden, and harvesting a garden are activities that keep us fit in body and in mind. Catherine Pulsifer




2. "Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body."  Cher




3. Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states."  Carol Welch




4. "Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."   Thomas Jefferson




5. The fitness of a Christian is measured through their love for others and their willingness to serve all.   Samatha Anne Marie Lynch




6. The fitness of a person to enter into a meaningful friendship is dependent on a selfless attitude where compassion overrides one's ego for attention.   Victoria L. Adenson





7. "Getting fit isn't just about looking good and feeling good but it's also about change." Drew Eubanks, Getting Results




8. As with the oak, so with humans. Only the fit survive the struggles, and attain a ripe old age. Author Unknown




9. "In a nutshell, your health, wealth, happiness, fitness, and success depend on your habits. Moreover, habits can be built from scratch, replaced, tweaked, or dumped."
   Joanna Jast, Hack Your Habits




10. Recent scientific research into the effects of yoga on the body and mind have shown that these physical practices have enormous benefits for physical and psychological health.  Tai Morello, Yoga





11. "Fitness is attained one exercise session at a time."  Tom Miles, A Year For Change




12. "Physical energy comes from the type of food you eat, how much sleep you get and your level of physical fitness."  Bryan Cohen, How to Work for Yourself




13. A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned. Naval Ravikant




14. "It does not matter whether we resolve to commit to an effective fitness regimen, eat healthier food, or lead happier lives - achieving consistency is always such a steep hill to climb."  Romuald Andrade, Habit Triggers





15. "Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul."  Susie Michelle Cortright, Why You Should Do Your Workout Today




16. "Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it."  Plato




17. "A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs."  Joan Welsh




18. "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, M.D.




19. "Breathing correctly is the key to better fitness, muscle strength, stamina and athletic endurance."  Dr. Michael Yessis





20. "To feel 'fit as a fiddle', you must tone down your middle."  Author Unknown




21. "I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."  Evelyn Ashford




22. "What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too."  Norman Cousins




23. "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools."  Spanish Proverb





24. "Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."  English Proverb
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25. "No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change."  Bill Phillips




26. "A lack of exercise robs the body of an essential ingredient."  Karen Sessions




27. "In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance."
    Mao Tse-Tung




28. "It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor."  Marcus Tullius Cicero




29. "Exercise while watching your favorite TV show."  Michael Lee, CPA




30. "Physical activity is an excellent stress-buster and provides other health benefits as well. It also can improve your mood and self image."  Jon Wickham from Taking Care of Yourself - What You Should Know




31. "Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."  Franklin P. Adams




32. "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties."  Hugh Blair





33. "Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent."  Laura Ramirez




34. "You will never live to my age without you keep yourself in breath with exercise."
    Sir P. Sidney




35. "True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united."  Alexander von Humboldt




36. "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




37. "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."  Edward Stanley




38. "...gardening is a great way to not only connect with nature, but to take advantage of the health benefits you can rake in as well."  Kelly Haugen 




39. "To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals."  Benjamin Franklin




40. "If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end."  Julius Erving




41. "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





42. "Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it."  Oprah Winfrey




43. "It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day."  Michael Miller, MD




44. "If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all."  Joey Adams




45. "Simplifying your life gives you more time for what you really do want time and energy for (like exercising, or reading, or taking a class)."  Kathy Gates




46. "Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck."  Author Unknown




47. "... recognize the importance of exercise in your life, and its influence on your ability to work more effectively."  Michael Hetherington, 15 Sure Signs That You Are On The Right Path




48. "Exercise will benefit their body, their mind, and their soul, no doubt, but the social aspect of meeting other seniors, can turn a lonely existence, into a budding life." A
    ndie Silverstein; Marlee T. Ruth, Parents Need Some Help: Strategies




49. "When you exercise regularly at least for 15 minutes at that time, you exercise your brain also."  Mat Fox, Improve Your Memory




50. A lot of exercise teachers and coaches tell their students that the way to feel better about themselves is to change their outside appearance. I don't buy that approach. It's never worked for me, so I don't see how it can work for others. I believe exactly the opposite - true change comes from the inside out.  Stacey Griffith, Two Turns from Zero