Fitness Quotes - Page 6

• Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

  Ann Oakley

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

  Norman Mailer

  Workout, Health, Responsibility

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.

  Catherine Bell

  Healthy, Vitamins, Powder

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

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• It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

  Cheryl Tiegs

  Inspiring, Workout, Exercise

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Lasts

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• The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.

  Denise Austin

  Exercise, Vices, Energy

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011

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• Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Benefits, Investing, Produce

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• Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

  Joan Benoit

  Family, Running, Strong Women

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• I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Running, Heart

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• Good things come to those who wait.

  Jess C Scott

  Inspirational, Funny, Patience

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Porcelain”, p.147, jessINK

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

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• What don't kill me... Had better start running!

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Kill Me

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• Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

  Venus Williams

  Confidence, Believe, Ifs

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• Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

  Charles Dickens

  Attention, Biscuits, Ninja

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• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Relaxation, Human Nature, Advantage

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Teacher, Health

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

  Jack LaLanne

  Spiritual, Exercise, People

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• Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Peace

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• As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

  Stone Gossard

  Self Esteem, Cancer, Exercise

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• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Taste, Health And Wellness

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

  Neil Armstrong

  Running, Believe, Health

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• And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

  Amy Irving

  Fashion, Baby, Clothes

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• You gotta have a body.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Body

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