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Fitness QuotesFamous Fitness quotes by popular authors such as Gene Tunney, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Kenneth H. Cooper, George William Curtis and others.
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[highlight-text]You gotta have a body.
Jayne Mansfield
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[highlight-text]The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
Bill Vaughan
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[highlight-text]Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The only weights I lift are my dogs.
Olivia Newton-John
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
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[highlight-text]I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
Erin Gray
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[highlight-text]The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
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[highlight-text]I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
Kim Alexis
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[highlight-text]Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
Robert Orben
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[highlight-text]Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
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[highlight-text]To enjoy the glow of good health you must exercise.
Gene Tunney
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[highlight-text]Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney
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[highlight-text]The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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[highlight-text]You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
Jim Otto
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[highlight-text]For exercise I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy Oscar.
Daniela Pestova
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[highlight-text]The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
Kenneth H. Cooper
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[highlight-text]Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Marquis de Sade
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[highlight-text]Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair
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[highlight-text]Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
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[highlight-text]He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.
Arab Proverb
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[highlight-text]Health is the vital principle of bliss and exercise of health.
James Thomson
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[highlight-text]Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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[highlight-text]A runner must run with dreams in his heart not money in his pocket.
Emil Zatopek
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[highlight-text]It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]It's challenging but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
Joely Fisher
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[highlight-text]Personally I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.
Jurgen Klinsmann
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[highlight-text]Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
Alan Thicke
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[highlight-text]Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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[highlight-text]So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
Kenneth H. Cooper
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[highlight-text]Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul
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[highlight-text]In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
Knute Nelson
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[highlight-text]Our growing softness our increasing lack of physical fitness is a menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]When I do get time I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.
Catherine Bell
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[highlight-text]Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George A. Sheehan
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[highlight-text]I concentrate on exercises from the waist down since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
Tina Louise
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[highlight-text]I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls so I had to beat them with my mind.
Martina Hingis
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[highlight-text]Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable and I know my surroundings. It's my home.
Michael Phelps
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[highlight-text]True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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[highlight-text]Tactics fitness stroke ability adaptability experience and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry
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[highlight-text]I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
Sting
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[highlight-text]Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
James Freeman Clarke
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[highlight-text]I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Rachel Blanchard
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[highlight-text]There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
Charles M. Schulz
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[highlight-text]I'm French so I'm quite lazy about exercising and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
Eva Green
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[highlight-text]It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
Jonah Lomu
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[highlight-text]Exercise to stimulate not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Lee Haney
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[highlight-text]Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training diet and mental approach.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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[highlight-text]If a man achieves victory over this body who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave
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[highlight-text]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 White
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[highlight-text]It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats it's not inspiring for your workout.
Cheryl Tiegs
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I don't smoke don't drink much and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon you know.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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[highlight-text]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 Oakley
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]It's not about weight it's about fitness and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat because fat is not very efficient whereas muscle is.
Deborah Bull
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]You need to eat normally and healthfully and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
Courtney Thorne Smith
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[highlight-text]Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
David Soul
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[highlight-text]A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
Sasha Cohen
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[highlight-text]I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say then always my body comes first.
Haile Gebrselassie
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[highlight-text]I think exercise tests us in so many ways our skills our hearts our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Peggy Fleming
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[highlight-text]Like most people I can be lazy so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike swim and run and I love to play soccer.
Viggo Mortensen
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[highlight-text]Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring perseverance in exercise adaptation of dress to the variations of climate simple and nutritious aliment and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]I think if you exercise your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
Stone Gossard