Fitness Quotes

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

“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

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.”

Richard Simmons

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

Hippocrates

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

Paul Dudley White

“People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important.”

Deepika Padukone

“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks.”

Peggy Fleming

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

“Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.”

George A. Sheehan

“If you want to break through, your mind should be able to control your body. Your mind should be a part of your fitness.”

Eliud Kipchoge

“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Hugh Blair

“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”

William Temple

“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.”

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”

Denis Waitley

“The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.”

Morihei Ueshiba

“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.”

Lee Haney

“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.”

Joan Rivers

“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”

Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.”

Gene Tunney

“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.”

Vinoba Bhave

“In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.”

Mahesh Babu

“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.”

Alan Thicke

“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”

Lord Chesterfield

“I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right, but also by being very organized and punctual.”

Cindy Crawford