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Fitness Speaks: Famous Quotes About Fitness, Part I

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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.

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.–Anthony Robbins.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.–Ben Franklin.

You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.–Dr. Wayne Dyer.

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding.–John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

To race and suffer, that is hard, but that is not being laid out in a hospital bed in Indianapolis with a catheter hanging out of my chest, with platinum pumping into my veins, throwing up for 24 hours straight for five days. We have all heard the saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger,’ and that is exactly it.–Lance Armstrong,
after winning the Tour de France.

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.–Jay Kordich.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.–Jonathan Swift.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.– Naomi Wolf.

Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.–Jack LaLane.
If taking vitamins doesn’t keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.–Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort.

It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a day.–Michael Miller, MD.

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.–Spanish proverb.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.–Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.–Oprah Winfrey.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.–Evelyn Ashford.

Use it or lose it.–Jimmy Connors.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.–Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.–David Mccord.

The physically fit can enjoy their vices–Lord Percival.

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.–Meryl Streep.

I have gained and lost the same ten pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have déjà vu.–Jane Wagner.

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

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.–Ernest Hemingway.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.–Norman Vincent Peale.

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.

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.–Unknown.

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

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.–Jim Rohn.

The first wealth is health.–Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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