Exercise And Fitness Quotes:

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

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Soundness, Inspirational Body

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

- Julius Erving

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Body, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Sports Spirit

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

- Hippocrates

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Workout, Nourishment, Motivational Exercise

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Fitness, Giving Up, Want, Motivational Exercise, Morning Motivation

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Fitness, Health, Exercise, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness

Start where you are, use what you have.

- Arthur Ashe

source: "7 Most Touching Moments from Michael Sam's ESPY Arthur Ashe Award Speech" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. July 17, 2014.

topic: Use, Where You Are, Pushing On, Inspirational Motivational Images, Live Your Dreams

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Indomitable, Indomitable Spirit

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Ryun

topic: Motivational, Motivation, Habit, Daily Habits, Healthy Habits

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

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

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Fitness, Martial Arts Inspirational, Speed Limits

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Fitness, Dirty, Health, Yummy, Physical Fitness

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

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Bad Ass, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Ideas, Physical Fitness, Good Exercise

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

- Mark Twain

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Pushing, Physical Fitness, Physical Exercise

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Fitness, Health, Exercise, Instructors, Physical Fitness

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Trying, Physical Fitness, Fluff

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1985

topic: Fitness, Health, Exercise, Physical Fitness, Bulimia

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

- Christiaan Barnard

topic: Fitness, Running, Might, Physical Fitness, Parlor

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

- John Dryden

source: Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

topic: Wise, Fitness, Work, Physical Fitness, Draught

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

- Norman Mailer

topic: Fitness, Workout, Responsibility, Physical Fitness, Physical Exercise

If you don't make mistakes you are not really trying.

- Coleman Hawkins

topic: Mistake, Making Mistakes, Trying, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Jazz Musician

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

- Coleman Hawkins

topic: Business, Mistake, Making Mistakes, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them, Jazz Musician

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

topic: Easy, Career Change, Worth It, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

- Plato

topic: Humans, Healthy Living, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness, Methodical

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Discipline, Physical Fitness, Exercise And Fitness

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Want, Compromise, Be Careful, Motivational Exercise, Morning Motivation

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

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Reading, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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

- Joan Walsh Anglund

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Men, Healthy Living, Chiropractic Care

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

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Flower, Inspirational Health, Inspirational Health And Fitness

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

- Joseph Pilates

source: "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

topic: Fitness, Thinking, Wishful Thinking, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

- Cher

topic: Funny, Fitness, Bottles, Physical Fitness, Exercise And Fitness

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Attitude, Struggle, Moving, Mentally Tough, Sports Mental Toughness

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

- Neil Armstrong

topic: Running, Fitness, Believe, Physical Fitness, Motivational Cross Country Running

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Fitness, Food, Health, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualities you need are all linked like a chain. If you give exercise a try and see results, even if it's as simple as feeling good that you get out the door, you'll become motivated to repeat the exercise. Seeing results is inspiring.

- Grete Waitz

source: Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2000). “On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People”, Rodale Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivation, Believe, Exercise And Fitness

First of all, let's get one thing straight: fitness and exercise aren't the same thing. You can exercise without getting fit, but you can't get fit without exercise.

- Jaclyn Smith

source: Jaclyn Smith (1986). “The American look”, Fireside

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Firsts, Exercise And Fitness, Get Fit