Fitness Quotes

“The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Milo is said to have walked the length of the course at Olympia carrying an ox on his shoulders.”

Cicero

“I do not now feel the want of the strength of a young man, any more than as a young man I felt the want of the strength of a bull or an elephant.”

Cicero

“We must exercise the body and so train it that it may be able to obey the counsel of reason in executing business and in enduring toil.”

Cicero

“I follow the advice of our common friend Acumenus, who says that a walk in the open air is more refreshing than in the covered colonnades.”

Plato

“The care of the body ought to precede that of the soul.”

Aristotle

“Yoga is not for him who eats too much, nor for him who eats too little; nor for him who sleeps too much, nor for him who is always awake.”

The Bhagavad Gita

“Posture is that which is firm and pleasant.”

Patanjali

“In archery it is not going through the leather which is the principal thing; because people's strength is not equal.”

Confucius

“The man who would be benevolent is like the archer. The archer adjusts himself and then shoots. If he misses, he does not murmur against those who surpass himself. He simply turns round and seeks the cause of his failure in himself.”

Mencius

“Add little to little and there will be a big pile.”

Ovid

“Endure and persist; this pain will turn to your good.”

Ovid

“This morning I swam from Sestos to Abydos.”

Lord Byron

“Jumping over stiles and springing over puddles with impatient activity.”

Jane Austen

“To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it?”

Jane Austen

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

Charlotte Bronte

“Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?”

Lewis Carroll

“Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, here we go round the mulberry bush, on a cold and frosty morning.”

Mother Goose

“Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream; merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”

Mother Goose

“Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after.”

Mother Goose

“The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.”

The Bible (Proverbs 22:13)

“The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.”

The Bible (Proverbs 26:15)

“For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.”

The Bible (Proverbs 23:21)

“Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”

The Bible (Habakkuk 2:2)