Fitness Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• 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

  Inspiring, Workout, Exercise

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Lasts

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

  Norman Mailer

  Workout, Health, Responsibility

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Running, Exercise, Science

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• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.

  Denise Austin

  Exercise, Vices, Energy

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011

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• Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Benefits, Investing, Produce

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• Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

  Joan Benoit

  Family, Running, Strong Women

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• 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

  Sports, Running, Heart

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• What don't kill me... Had better start running!

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Kill Me

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• Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

  Venus Williams

  Confidence, Believe, Ifs

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• Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

  Charles Dickens

  Attention, Biscuits, Ninja

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• Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

  Jack LaLanne

  Spiritual, Exercise, People

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Cancer, Exercise

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Teacher, Health

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Taste, Health And Wellness

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relaxation, Human Nature, Advantage

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

  Hugh Blair

  Health, Exercise, Improvement

  Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247

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• 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.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Work, Health

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Health, Exercise

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

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