Fitness Quotes - Page 12

• My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Guilt, Age

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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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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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Running, Children

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• I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

  Keri Russell

  Feel Better, Work Out, Mind

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• Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Relaxation, Massage, Brilliant

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• 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.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ice Water

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Happiness, Health

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• The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Medicine, Fasting

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Health, Numbers, Wellness

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• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.42

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• It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

  Michael Pollan

  Motivational, Car, Window

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.20, Penguin

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• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

  Edward Jenner

  Health, Men, Disease

  An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

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• my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

  J. A. Jance

  Exercise, Jumping, Form

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

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Food, Health, Home Cooking

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Health, Work Out

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• My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, People, Work Out

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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, Running, Men

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• We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Motivational, Exercise

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• 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.

  Ken Robinson

  Workout, Jobs, Real

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

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Health, Loss

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Husband, Health

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Howard G. Callaway (2006). “The conduct of life: a philosophical reading”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Practice, Long

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• The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, America, Full Potential

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated, Volume 13, Issue 26, pp. 14-17, December 26, 1960.

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• 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.

  Subodh Gupta

  Loss, Healthy, Weight

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