Top 100 Fitness Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best fitness quotes ever written, picked out of the full fitness archive on QuoteForever. You will find Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack Lalanne, Jillian Michaels and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe among them.

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1

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

2

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

3

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.

4

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

5

When I was first introduced to CrossFit, I found it to be the hardest workout that I'd ever done. It wiped the floor with me, and I fell in love with it immediately. The results that I have seen in my strength and physicality have been unparalleled to any other things I have ever done in my more than 20 years in the fitness business.

6

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

7

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

8

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

9

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

10

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

11

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

12

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

13

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

14

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

15

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

16

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.

17

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

18

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

19

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

20

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

21

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.

22

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

23

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.

24

You gotta have a body.

25

A feeble body weakens the mind.

26

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

27

Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

28

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

29

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.

30

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

31

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

32

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.

33

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.

34

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

35

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

36

My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.

37

If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

38

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

39

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

40

I believe it's extremely important to include some other type of fitness activity in your training, so cross training will help you to avoid injury when you are dancing.

41

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

42

Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

43

I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.

44

You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

45

For life is only life when blessed with health.

46

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

47

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

48

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

49

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

50

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

51

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

52

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

53

Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.

54

Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.

55

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

56

Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

57

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

58

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

59

I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.

60

You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

61

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

62

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

63

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

64

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

65

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

66

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.

67

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

68

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

69

The first wealth is health.

70

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

71

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

72

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

73

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

74

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

75

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

76

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

77

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.

78

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

79

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

80

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

81

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

82

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

83

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

84

Exercise is labor without weariness.

85

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.

86

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.

87

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

88

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

89

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

90

I train Monday through Saturday. I usually have fitness training for 90 minutes, then I'm on the tennis court for 3 to 4 hours.

91

My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

92

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

93

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.

94

If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.

95

I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.

96

I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.

97

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

98

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

99

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

100

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

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