Fitness Quotes - Page 12

• Take a good long look at human beings in their actual practices and motives; bring the utmost psychological and bio-economic factors to bear on making sense of their illusions and delusions. What then would the truth have to be, such that such human beings are FIT TO KNOW IT at all, even provisionally or tentatively?

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Practice, Long

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• Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ice Water

  Twitter post from May 27, 2010

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• I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Running, Fighting

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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• We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Motivational, Exercise

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• My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

  Jack LaLanne

  Motivational, People, Work Out

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Health, Work Out

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• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Happiness, Health

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• You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.

  Jen Lancaster

  Party, Thinking, Surprise

  Jen Lancaster (2008). “Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest To Discover if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e is Not The Answer”, p.198, Penguin

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• Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Relaxation, Massage, Brilliant

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Food, Health, Home Cooking

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.

  Michael Phelps

  Motivational, Swimming, Thinking

  "Michael Phelps' Top 5 Fundamentals for Pulling Off the Impossible" by Henrik Edberg, www.positivityblog.com. August 22, 2008.

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• The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

  Edward Jenner

  Health, Men, Disease

  An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox

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• I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Health, Thinking, Doctors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.42

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• If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

  Seneca the Younger

  Health, Numbers, Wellness

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• Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• The best of all medicines is resting and fasting

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Medicine, Fasting

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• If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

  Bill Bowerman

  Motivational, Running, Men

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• My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Health, Loss

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

  Michael Pollan

  Motivational, Car, Window

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.20, Penguin

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• There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Running, Children

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• Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real, physical terms - than your neighbor who is forty-four, works in a dead-end job, eats chicken wings twice a day, considers thinking too strenuous, and looks at lifting a beer glass as a reasonable daily workout.

  Ken Robinson

  Workout, Jobs, Real

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• I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

  Keri Russell

  Feel Better, Work Out, Mind

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• I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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