Fitness Motivational Quotes - Page 5

• Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

  Walter Dill Scott

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

  Attributed in "That ye might have life" by Sterling W. Sill Benson, (p. 274), 1974.

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• Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

  Izaak Walton

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 21

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  The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

  Jacqueline Gareau

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

  "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Nature, Get Well Soon

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.107, BookBaby

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• The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Sitting, Sin, Ass

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Women, Eye

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

  Elie Wiesel

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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• Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don't put them both together by claiming you 'don't have the time'.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Two, Together, Excuse

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Happy

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• 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

  Fitness, Exercise, Discipline

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.50

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

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• I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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• Someday is not a day of the week.

  Janet Dailey

  Inspirational, Positive, I Hate You

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

  A. A. Milne

  Fitness, Exercise, Trying

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.106, Egmont UK

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• Never mistake activity for achievement.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Motivational, Fitness, Running

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• A woman's health is her capital.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Women's Health, Literature

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.126

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

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Health

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1985

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