Motivation And Fitness Quotes & Sayings

I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue. — Donna Dixon

The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. — Boyd K. Packer

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life. — Shaun Hick

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn. — Gwen Ro

Cardio fitness is an important part of getting in shape and improving your overall health. Any exercise that is aerobic, in which you increase the amount of oxygen you take in and your heart pumps more blood, improves not only your cardiovascular health but your level of fitness as well as helping you lose weight. — Bob Harper

Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it. — Toni Sorenson

To all those who doubt the power of exercise -- and I was one of you -- take it from me: physical fitness has translated into an intellectual fitness I could not have imagined... I've learned that "I don't need to go for a run today" comes out of the same part of my brain as "I don't need to confront my vice president today about the low performance of his department." One suffer-session at a time, I have trained that part of my brain to endure short-term pain in exchange for long-term benefits. — Edward Stevens

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. — Munia Khan

I am going to be strong today. I tried it yesterday and I think I am hooked. — Neila Rey

The modern fitness scene is largely defined by the presence of pumped up, muscle-bound bodybuilders, expensive exercise machines, and steroids.

It's wasn't always this ways.

There was a time when men trained to become inhumanly strong using nothing but their own bodyweight. No weights. No machines. No drugs. Nothing — Paul Wade

When you know what you're doing, you can do what you want." -Moshe Feldenkrais — Cheryl L. Ilov

Balance your body for better results. A balanced body improves electrical communication to muscles and gets you stronger, faster. — Josh Bezoni

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights. — Ronnie Coleman

Many diets and fitness plans use guilt as a motivation, but that never works in the long run. — Rick Warren

No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I want to gain 150 pounds and I will start right now! — Tricia Cunningham

Back and forth she went each morning by the river, spring arriving once again; foolish, foolish spring, breaking open its tiny buds, and what she couldn't stand was how - for many years, really - she had been made happy by such a thing. She had not thought she would ever become immune to the beauty of the physical world, but there you were. The river sparkled with the sun that rose, enough that she needed her sunglasses. — Elizabeth Strout

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn. — Gresham Barrett

Too many people I meet believe that you can sit in a chair and be given motivation. With exercise and fitness, you get it by doing. The mental qualities you need are all linked like a chain. If you give exercise a try and see results, even if it's as simple as feeling good that you get out the door, you'll become motivated to repeat the exercise. Seeing results is inspiring. — Grete Waitz

Your body is your body. Learn about it. — Josh Bezoni

Getting healthy will always result in weight loss as a side effect, but a side effect of dieting and weight loss is often poorer health. — Christopher Earle

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost? — Alexander Pope

As I get older I see that running has changed for me. What used to be about burning calories is now more about burning up what is false. Lies I used to tell myself about who I was and what I could do, friendships that cannot withstand hills or miles, the approval I no longer need to seek, and solidarity that cannot bear silence. I run to burn up what I don't need and ignite what I do. — Kristin Armstrong

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still. — Reginald Heber

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves. — Jamais Cascio

All you need are a pair of tennis shoes and motivation to change the course of your life. — Heidi Bond

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind. — Pawan Mishra

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride - or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation - takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going for us, just as friendship has a chance to grow only when we fare to share what we are afraid of and regret. The rest is merely showmanship. The flaws whose exposure we so dread, the indiscretions we know we would be mocked for, the secrets that keep our conversations with our so-called friends superficial and inert - all of these emerge as simply part of the human condition. — Alain De Botton

When the finish line seems too far away, remember how you felt when you were back at the starting line. Regain that motivation to recharge your momentum. — Toni Sorenson

Eat clean. Think straight. Work consistently. Speak positively. Motivate others. Believe in yourself. — Toni Sorenson

It wasn't hard going to the gym, as long as he went as soon as he woke up, before he had time to think about not going. Those morning workouts made him feel like he was starting his day like a pinball, with a giant shot of momentum. The feeling sometimes didn't wear off until six or seven at night (when it was usually overtaken by the feeling that he was just bouncing haplessly from one situation to the next without any real purpose or direction). — Rainbow Rowell

The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years. — Mark Dilworth

Go for broke, my friends. Straighten your spine when you step to the podium. Trust your own tongue. Believe that your weary legs will hold you until you reach the finish line. And reach it you will if you give it your all. Fall if you must, crawl if you must, but don't you dare give up or give in until you've made it to the end. For at the end is where your great reward will be to begin anew. A new chance. A new life. A new you. — Toni Sorenson

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants. — E. Stanley Jones

That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I've had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach me for fitness advice, and they were almost always convinced of many strange, unworkable ideas about diet and exercise. — Michael Matthews

Positive thoughts revive the spirit, restore the soul and make the body healthy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. — Auliq Ice

The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it. — Tricia Cunningham