Fitness - Quotes & Sayings

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

Gene Tunney

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Gene Tunney

I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.

Ruben Studdard

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F. Kennedy

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

Mahesh Babu

Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.

Khloe Kardashian

People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.

Deepika Padukone

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

Denis Waitley

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Florence Griffith Joyner

I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'!

Poppy Delevingne

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

Kim Kardashian

For me, fitness is a part of my everyday life. But fitness does not mean having big muscles; it means being active, quick, and flexible. It can be defined in many terms.

Varun Dhawan

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

Franklin Pierce Adams

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

Steven Wright

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don't go for sweet and trite food.

Rakul Preet Singh

My fitness journey will be a lifelong journey.

Khloe Kardashian

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead

Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.

Alison Sweeney

You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

Brett Hoebel

It's so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

Alex Morgan

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

Gene Tunney

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Lee Haney

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

Maria Montessori

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Charles M. Schulz

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

George Bernard Shaw

I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

Jillian Michaels

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

Matt McGorry

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Mark Twain

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.

Elaine MacDonald

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

Lauren Conrad

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

Michael Phelps

The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

Lakshmi Mittal

My own preferred fitness regime is to use my bicycle.

Paul Hollywood

You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

Martha Stewart

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

Gregor Mendel

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

Daphne Oz

I've spent half my life in gyms, if not more, and I love physical fitness and health; couple that with the fact that I love for people to be healthy, whether it's mentally, physically, or emotionally, and it's just a great opportunity for me to do something I love and have an impact on people's health.

Steve Nash

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

Marcia Fudge

I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

Joan Collins

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.

Jillian Michaels

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

Jose Rizal

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Marquis de Sade

Fitness has nothing to do with age.

Virender Sehwag

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

Dayananda Saraswati

I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.

Arjun Rampal