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50 Fitness Motivation

fitness  motivation1. By exercise. I’ll tell you one thing, you don’t always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I’m on the road. – Jack LaLanne

2. The first wealth is health – Emerson

3. If you don’t do what’s best for your body, you’re the one who comes up on the short end. – Julius Erving

4. Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. – Earl of Derby

5. Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it. – Unknown

6. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. – Unknown

7. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato

8. It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

9. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. – Franklin P. Adams

10. If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. – Eubie Blake

11. 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

12. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – JimRohn

13. The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results. – Anthony Robbins

14. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. – Thomas Jefferson

15. Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. – Denis Waitley

16. To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. – Richard Baker

17. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well. – Wayne Dyer

18. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. – Charles Caleb Colton

19. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. – James Thomson

20. The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs. – J. O. De La Mettrie

21. A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs. – Joan Welsh

22. 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

23. Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. – Sasha Azevedo

24. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. – Goethe

25. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. – Scott Hamilton

26. It is remarkable how ones wits are sharpened by physical exercise. – Pliny the Younger

27. Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul. – Susie Michelle Cortright

28. Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit. – Sarah Louise Arnold

29. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united. – Alexander von Humboldt

30. Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales. – Paul Sweeney

31. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

32. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

33. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She’s 97 today and we don’t know where the hell she is. – Ellen Degeneres

34. You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. – David Viscott

35. The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips

36. The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It’s your mind you have to convince. – Vincent Lombardi

37. The groundwork of all happiness is health. – Leigh Hunt

38. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister

39. Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. – Elie Wiesel

40. Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. – Walter Dill Scott

41. My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. – Hank Aaron

42. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

43. Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses, on your powers instead of your problems. – Paul J. Meyer

44. Everyone has limits on the time they can devote to exercise, and crosstraining simply gives you the best return on your investment balanced fitness with minimum injury risk and maximum fun. – Paula Newby- Fraser

45. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. – Alex Karras

46. It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi

47. It’s the lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. – Muhammad Ali

48. 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

49. Exercise: you don’t have time not to. – Unknown

50. We do not stop exercising because we grow old – we grow old because we stop exercising. – Dr. Kenneth Cooper

Zig Ziglar Quotes

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar QuotesIf you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

When you respond to life, that’s positive; when you react to life, that’s negative.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Mark Twain Quotes

Today we celebrate Mark Twain’s birthday in our own, favorite way: sharing quotes. Let me show you some wonderful inspirational Mark Twain Quotes.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain QuotesPatriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah… didn’t miss the boat.

Inspirational Life Quotes and Sayings that make you think

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ~Maria Robinson

If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. ~Win Borden

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. ~Ashley Smith

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde​

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson​

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore

The most important things in life aren’t things. ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. ~Alex Tan

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. ~John N. Mitchell

Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. ~Keri Russell

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. ~Byrd Baggett

you care about what other people thinkLife is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John W. Gardner

Every day of your life is a page of your history. ~Arabic proverb

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ~Walter Bagehot

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. ~Marie Curie

Each man is questioned by life and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. ~Viktor E. Frankl

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller

Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. ~John Derek

All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives. ~Colin Powell

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose. ~Chinese proverb

Live truth instead of professing it. ~Elbert Hubbard

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment – the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. ~Jorge Luis Borges

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may  have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It’s inside you – if you listen to it, you can play it. ~Nido Qubein

No regrets

no regretsIn life we do things. Some we wish we had never done. Some we wish we could replay a million times in our heads. But they all make us who we are, and in the end they shape every detail about us. If we were to reverse any f them we wouldn’t be the person we are. So just live, make mistakes, have wonderful memories, but never ever second guess who you are, where you have been, and most importantly, where it is you’re going.

Wise Carl Jung Quotes

Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Today I want to share with you his wise toughts. Enjoy this list of wise Carl Jung Quotes and, if you like them, choose your favorite. Thanks!

A “scream” is always just that – a noise and not music.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

wise carl jung quotesEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great fortune is a great slavery. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A great mind becomes a great fortune. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

seneca quotesA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All art is but imitation of nature. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

All cruelty springs from weakness. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Warren G. Bennis QuotesPeople who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

There is a profound difference between information and meaning. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work. – Warren G. Bennis Quotes

Inspirational Images Quotes

ills of society“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.” – Unknownsoulmate is someone who will make you be“Sometimes I think a soulmate is someone who will make you be the most «YOU» that you can possibly be” – Unknownnever sacrifice who you are“Never sacrifice who you are just because someone has a problem with it.” – Unknownthe best of everything“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.” – Unknownjudging a person“Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are.” – UnknownDissapointed by what you didn't do“In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than what you did.” – Mark Twainimagination is only intelligence having fun“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.” – George Scialabba

happiness

“Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too.” – Unknown