Fitness Quotes

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Quoted in Thomas J Peters and Robert H Waterman Among Friends (1982).

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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  The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy...It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.

  Jacqueline Gareau

  Motivational, Running, Strong

  "Diversification and Discipline Are Key to Investing in Gold" by Frank Holmes, www.businessinsider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

  Caroline Rhea

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Patience, Stress

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Exercise, Meditation

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• An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

  George S. Patton

  Inspiration, Mind, Body

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• Run hard, be strong, think big!

  Percy Cerutty

  Motivational, Running, Strong

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• You want me to do something... tell me I can't do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational Workout, Work Out, Training

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• 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

  Motivational, Exercise, Men

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• A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

  A. A. Milne

  Exercise, Trying, Bears

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.106, Egmont UK

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• Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspiring, Health, Warning

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Motivational, Workout, Flower

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• 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

  Motivational, Health, Exercise

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• The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Strength, Being Strong

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

  Denis Waitley

  Appreciation, Time, Flower

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• The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Health, Doctors

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Hope, Health

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  Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

  Alex Karras

  Strength, Inspirational Sports, Determination

  "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.

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