Fitness can be either physical or mental fitness. Physical fitness is highly essential toward off disease; ailments related to aging and have an overall well being of the body. Needless to mention, exercises have to be done everyday-even simple exercises like walking can help a long way to keep fit- and another factor that contributes to fitness is the right choice of food habits.
As Earl of Derby said, “those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness”. Mental fitness is having a balanced mind in all kinds of crisis and situations if it is not by birth. But when it comes to physical fitness, it is entirely in the hands of the particular person.
If we carry on exercises with fun and enjoy them, it will not be a boredom or burden. A sound mind in a sound body is the motto of a healthy and satisfied life and to achieve that, it is imperative to have fitness in both the spheres because health is our first wealth.
Here are 100+ fitness quotes to help motivate you to exercise…
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
Phyllis Diller
Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
Author Unknown
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
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Author Unknown
An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school.
David Walters
I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
Alec Yuill Thornton
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
John Dryden
People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that’s the problem.
Chris Adams
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
Christiaan Barnard
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
If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise.
Author Unknown
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy.
Izaak Walton
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Goethe
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Hippocrates
The first wealth is health.
Emerson
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
Breathing correctly is the key to better fitness, muscle strength, stamina and athletic endurance.
Dr. Michael Yessis
Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
Earl of Derby
The five S’s of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.
Jean Paul
Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Voltaire
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.
Ashleigh Brilliant
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Dr. Jonas Salk
If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake
If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving
Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
Moses Maimonides
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
Norman Vincent Peale
Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.
Karen Sessions
Life is not living, but living in health.
Martial
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
La Rochefoucauld
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Unknown
I just want to see how long I can keep this thing going. The easiest thing is dying. Living is a a pain in the butt.
Jack Lalanne
For life is only life when blessed with health.
Martial
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
Unknown
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If the doctors of today do not become the nutritionists of tomorrow, then the nutritionists of today will become the doctors of tomorrow.
Unknown
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
Unknown
To feel ‘fit as a fiddle’, you must tone down your middle.
Unknown
When the body is strong and the mind is weak, the result is insubordination. Train your mind as well as your body.
Unknown
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Epictetus
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
A.J.Materi
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
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
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
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Thomas Fuller
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Plato
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
As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
Chinese Proverb
Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.
Elbert Hubbard
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning ‘ability to,’ and bics, meaning ‘withstand tremendous boredom.’
Dave Barry
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adam
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Banniste
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising.
Dr. Kenneth Coope
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilate
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.
James Rippe
To feel ‘fit as a fiddle,’ you must tone down your middle.
Anonymous
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
Jill Johnson
The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Erin Gray
Exercise is done against one’s wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George Sheeha
Health and good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.
Ecclesiasticus
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
Elbert Hubbar
Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.
Dutch Prover
When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no ‘I’ll start tomorrow.’ Tomorrow is disease.
V.L. Allinea
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
If it weren’t for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn’t get any exercise at all.
Joey Adams
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.
Plato
Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
Cher
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Thomas de Quincey
The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!
Author Unknown
Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.
Carol Welch
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Charles Caleb Colton
A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
Joan Welsh
The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, ‘If we’re going to charge $10 an hour, we can’t call it jumping up and down.
Rita Rudner
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
Marsha Doble
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A.A. Milne
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise.
Chauncey Depew
I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Ellen DeGeneres
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
