Quotes and Sayings About Fitness
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
-- A. A. Milne -
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
-- Alan Thicke -
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
-- Alex KarrasSource : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
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exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.
-- Alissa Nutting -
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You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
-- Alissa Nutting -
And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
-- Amy Irving -
The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it!
-- Andy Rooney -
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
-- Ann OakleySource : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
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I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.
-- Anna Quindlen -
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 -
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
-- Babe Ruth -
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Exercise, to qualify at all, must be lonely, painfu, humorless, and boring.
-- Barbara Holland -
The best of all medicines is resting and fasting
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.
-- Bill Loguidice -
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running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!
-- Brenda Ueland -
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
-- Brock Yates -
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 -
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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett -
My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.
-- Carol Vorderman -
A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
-- Carolyn Heilbrun -
If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
-- Cassey Ho -
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When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
-- Catherine Bell -
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
-- Charles Caleb ColtonSource : Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.120
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
-- Charles Dickens -
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
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I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
-- Chauncey DepewSource : "Four Talks for Bibliophiles" by George Allen, (p. 70), 1958.
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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
-- Cher