Quotes on Fitness

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being