153 private quotes tagged fitness

“The first wealth is health.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“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

“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”— Plato

“Exercise is labor without weariness.”— Samuel Johnson

“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

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.”— Thomas Jefferson

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”— Franklin P. Adams

“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”— Thomas Carlyle

“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”— John F. Kennedy

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”— Mahatma Gandhi

“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

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”— George Bernard Shaw

“A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.”— Emil Zatopek

“I like starting off the new year fresh. I'm excited to see how 2013 turns out. Maybe because I'm an actress and I am always on a diet and fitness program, but my New Year's resolution is to let myself be nice to myself about my body.”— Busy Philipps

“Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.”— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.”— Lois Capps

“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

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”— Lance Armstrong

“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”— Jim Rohn

“A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.”— Florence Griffith Joyner

“Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.”— Mike Ditka

“Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.”— Alan Thicke

“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.”— Andre Maurois