Fitness Quotes - Page 13

• Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Patience, House, Inner Peace

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• Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Vitamins, Donuts

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• I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Health, Gym, Unfamiliar

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• Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Motivational, Workout, Bodybuilding

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• THE REASON I CAN BE 38 AND HAVE TWO KIDS AND WEAR A BIKINI IS BECAUSE I WORK MY ASS OFF. IT'S NOT AN ACCIDENT. IT'S NOT LUCK, IT'S NOT FAIRY DUST, IT'S NOT GOOD GENES. IT'S KILLING MYSELF FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF FIVE DAYS A WEEK, BUT WHAT I GET OUT OF IT IS RELATIVE TO WHAT I PUT INTO IT.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Inspirational, Kids, Dust

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• Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

  George Washington

  Presidential, Tree, Trying

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• Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand.

  Elizabeth Armstrong

  Hands, Knowing, Work Out

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.

  Maimonides

  Art, Health, Inspire

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• A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

  Laozi

  Motivational, Health, Men

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

  Mason Cooley

  Bathroom, Scales, Circumstances

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• exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.

  Alissa Nutting

  Workout, Exercise, Lovers

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• I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Exercise, Want, Arise

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• Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

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• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Walter Bagehot (1858). “Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen”, p.272

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• running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

  Brenda Ueland

  Running, Nuts, Car

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Fighting, Men

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• Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Health, Night

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 14, 2016

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• Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body.

  George Carlin

  America, Soul, Trying

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

  Richard Simmons

  Motivational, Children, Blood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes people will hear you and be able to change their behavior, but often their behavior has more to do with their own need for approval than with your need for support. No matter what their response, you need to be firm and hold your ground. At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

  Jillian Michaels

  Responsibility, People, Support

  Jillian Michaels (2009). “Winning by Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

  Mary Pierce

  Healthy, Levels, Matter

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• I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

  Anna Quindlen

  Thinking, Alternatives, Machines

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.63, Ballantine Books

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