Fitness Quotes

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Health is worth more than learning.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Inaction weakens the body, work strengthens it.”

Celsus

“Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running.”

Epictetus

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”

Epictetus

“Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.”

Epictetus

“Between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows: long and steep is the path that leads to her, and it is rough at the first; but when a man has reached the top, then is she easy to reach.”

Hesiod

“There is no greater glory for a man as long as he lives than that which he wins by his own hands and feet.”

Homer

“Having been a rather sickly and awkward boy, I was as a young man at first both nervous and distrustful of my own prowess. I had to train myself painfully and laboriously.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“Theodore, you have the mind but you have not the body, and without the help of the body the mind cannot go as far as it should. You must make your body.”

Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

“First of all, our young men must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.”

Swami Vivekananda

“In the application of thy principles thou must be like the pancratiast, not like the gladiator; for the gladiator lets fall the sword which he uses and is killed; but the other always has his hand, and needs to do nothing else than use it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“The evil of excessive training in early years is strikingly proved by the example of the Olympic victors; for not more than two or three of them have gained a prize both as boys and as men.”

Aristotle

“If ten pounds are too much for a particular person to eat and two too little, it does not follow that the trainer will order six pounds; for this also is perhaps too much for the person who is to take it, or too little - too little for Milo, too much for the beginner in athletic exercises.”

Aristotle

“Excellence of body is health.”

Aristotle

“The habit of body of our athletes is a sleepy sort of thing, and rather perilous to health.”

Plato

“The young of all creatures cannot be quiet in their bodies or in their voices; they are always wanting to move and cry out.”

Plato

“Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than those who are slender.”

Hippocrates

“Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.”

Hippocrates

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

Ovid

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

Benjamin Franklin

“The exercise of swimming is one of the most healthy and agreeable in the world.”

Benjamin Franklin

“It is indeed foolish, my dear Lucilius, and very unsuitable for a cultivated man, to work hard over developing the muscles and broadening the shoulders and strengthening the lungs.”

Seneca

“I, that old devotee of cold water, who used to celebrate the new year by taking a plunge into the canal.”

Seneca

“The world belongs to the energetic.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson