“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 4:8)

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FITNESS
Read the best fitness quotes from Socrates, Thomas Jefferson, Swami Vivekananda, Seneca and more, with timeless words to keep you moving and motivated.
“For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things.”
The Bible (1 Timothy 4:8)
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 9:24)
“And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 9:25)
“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 9:27)
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 6:19)
“And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”
The Bible (2 Timothy 2:5)
“Ye did run well; who did hinder you?”
The Bible (Galatians 5:7)
“She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.”
The Bible (Proverbs 31:17)
“It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.”
The Bible (Psalm 18:32)
“They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 1:23)
“And he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.”
The Bible (1 Kings 18:46)
“If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses?”
The Bible (Jeremiah 12:5)
“He rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.”
The Bible (Psalm 19:5)
“And Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.”
The Bible (2 Samuel 2:18)
“If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
The Bible (Judges 16:17)
“He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.”
The Bible (Psalm 147:10)
“And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden.”
The Bible (Isaiah 58:11)
“Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.”
William Shakespeare
“A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.”
William Shakespeare
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”
William Shakespeare
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
William Shakespeare
“I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.”
William Shakespeare
“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.”
Mark Twain
“I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”
Jerome K. Jerome
“Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.”
Samuel Johnson