Fitness and Motivation Quotes

Commit to be fit. – Author Unknown
Will is a skill. – Jillian Michaels
Strive for progress, not perfection. – Author Unknown
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. – Gene Tunney
I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James! – Ellen DeGeneres
You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. – Maya Angelou
The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. – Unknown
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman R. Augustine
Fear is what stops you… courage is what keeps you going. – Unknown
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. – Animal Crossing
A good woman keeps her mind right and her body tight. – Habeeb Akande
It’s never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. – Astrid Alauda
The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis. – Moira Nordholt
If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise. – Author Unknown
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. – A.A. Milne
Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. – Cher
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryan
If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it. – Arnold Schwarzenegger,
It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. – Anonymous
I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training. – Author Unknown
While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. – Valerie Jeremijenko

1. Eat breakfast

2. Don’t skip meals

3. Drink more water

4. Eat more fruits and vegetables

5. Drink green tea

6. Eat homemade soup

7. Limit restaurant food

8. Eliminate fried food

9. Eliminate chips

10. Eat small, frequent meals

11. Wrap with lettuce

12. Drink Red Wine

13. Eat Grapefruit

14. Eat organic eggs

15. Eat whole foods

“Beauty surrounds us.” – Rumi
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” – Stendhal
“Beauty fades, dumb is forever.” – Judy Sheindlin
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” – John Keats
“Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.” – Dr. SunWolf
“Close your eyes and see the beauty.” – Author Unknown
“Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.” – Roseanne
“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.“ – Karl Kraus
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.” – Simone Weil
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
“Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.” – Ninon de l’Enclos
“People are more than just the way they look.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” – Rosalind Russell
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” – Oscar Wilde
“The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.” – Author Unknown
“Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.” – Florenz Ziegfeld
“I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.” – Author Unknown
“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.” – Marcel Proust
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann von Goethe
“Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.” – Author Unknown
“We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.” – Mary Oliver

“Eat little, sleep sound.” – Iranian Proverb
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – Proverb
“One should eat to live, not live to eat.” – Moliere
“An empty belly is the best cook.” – Estonian Proverb
“If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it” – Common sense
“A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.” – George Rosenbaum
“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” – Paul Prudhomme
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates
“You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?” – Julie Murphy
“True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington”
“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.” – Garrison Keillor
“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W.C. Fields
“After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.” – English Saying
“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.” – Joan Gussow
“It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” – Margaret Mead
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat Savarin
“You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots.”-Ted Spiker
“Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” -Michael Pollan
“Life is too short not to eat raw and it’s even shorter if you don’t.” – Marie Sarantakis

“The greatest wealth is Health.”
“The best doctor gives the least medicine.”
“Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.”
“Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy”
“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” ~ Hannah Green
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” ~ Plato
“Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.” ~ Dutch Proverb
“If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?”
“Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” ~ Joseph Addison
“Health is a relationship between you and your body” ~ Terri Guillemets
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
“Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” ~ Astrid Alauda
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
“The ‘i’ in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness is ‘we’.”
“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” ~ William Shakespeare
“The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” ~ Robert C. Peale
“Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.” ~Napoleon I

A Healthy Mind In a Healthy Body

A Healthy Mind In a Healthy Body or “a sound mind in a healthy body” (From Latin: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano) is a saying often believed to originate from the Latin satirist and poet Juvenal

Anyway the more probable author of the saying is a far older Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus. (Greek: Νοῦς ὑγιὴς ἐν σώματι ὑγιεῖ )

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