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Inspirational Fitness Quotes

Whether of the sport you practice, you need motivation. I’ll inspire you sharing some wonderful inspirational fitness quotes that I love.

it will hurtIt will hurt. It will take time. It will require dedication. It will require willpower. You will need to make healthy decisions. It requires sacrifice. You will need to push your body to its max. There will be temptation. But, I promise you, when you reach your goal, it’s worth it.

reach your goalIt does not matter if the progress is slow as long as you reach your goal.

others can'tToday I do what others wont. So tomorrow I can do what others can’t.

days when you feel goodYou can’t get much donei n life if you only work on the days when you feel good. – Jerry West

make progress or make excusesThere are only 2 choices; make progress or make excuses. – Ellen Mikesell

regretYou only regret the workouts you don’t do.

Funny Quotes and Sayings

I’m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing.

A day without sunshine is like, night.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Some days you’re the dog, and some days you’re the hydrant.

I keep hitting “escape”, but I’m still here.

I just read that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are merging. It’ll be called You-Twit-Face.

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

A vasectomy means never having to say you’re sorry.

I have a drinking problem – I can’t afford it.

When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet the water bill is higher.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when we’ve put footprints on the moon.

I just read that YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are merging. It’ll be called You-Twit-Face.

Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly, usually for the same reason.

Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them.

For Sale: Parachute. Only used once, never opened, small stain.

A fool is a 37th floor window washer who steps backs to see his work.

I tried to put my head together but now my body is falling apart!!

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

Birds of a feather flock together and crap on your car.

A penny saved is a government oversight.

I can resist everything except temptation.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement .

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.

If you can smile when things go wrong , you have someone in mind to blame.

The sole purpose of a child’s middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.

Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words ‘The’ and ‘IRS’ together it spells ‘Theirs.’

Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Funny Quotes and SayingsAging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today, it’s called golf.

I say no to alcohol, it just doesn’t listen.

A friend in need is a pest indeed.

Work is fine if it doesn’t take too much of your time.

When everything comes your way you’re in the wrong lane.

The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train..

Born free, taxed to death.

Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right.

Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don’t have film.

Life is unsure; always eat your dessert first.

Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.

If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you’ll have trouble putting on your pants.

It’s not hard to meet expenses, they are everywhere.

The trouble with being punctual is that no one is there to appreciate it.

In a country of free speech, why are there phone bills?

If you cannot change your mind, are you sure you have one?

Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon!

If you can’t convince them, confuse them..

It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop at the end.

I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder!

The cigarette does the smoking you are just the sucker.

Someday is not a day of the week

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

To Err is human, to forgive is not a Company policy.

The road to success….. Is always under construction.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Alcohol doesn’t solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does milk.

In order to get a loan, you first need to prove that you don’t need it.

All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or married to someone else.

If ignorance is bliss, then I must be the happiest thingamajig in the whatchamacallit!

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. [Oscar Wilde]

Silence is golden… duck tape is silver.

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.

I know there’s other fish in the sea, but I lost my pole when the last one got away from me.

Wisdom Quotes and Sayings

A man who regards his own life and that of his own fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. – Albert Einstein

Give every man thy ear but few thy voice. – Shakespeare

The gods themselves cannot reclaim their gifts. They may rob us of our future and embitter our present, but our past they may not touch. With all its laughter and delight and glamour it is our eternal possession. – LM Montgomery – The Story Girl

Ever tried? Ever Failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees. – Emiliano Zapata

Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment in time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily, for once, the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! What do you say? (pause) It is true that when with folded arms we weigh the pros and cons we are no less a credit to our species. The tiger bounds to the help of his congeners without the least reflection , or else he slinks away into the depths of the thickets. But that is not the question. What we are doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen t o know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion, one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come. – Samuell Beckett, Waiting for Godot

wisdom quotes and sayingsFamily is there because they have to be, friends are there because they want to be. – Unknown

What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need is all around me. – Dave Matthews

It was once said that is it better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. This is not entirely true. It is neither better nor worse. Both hurt and both are, in their own separate ways, unbearable. – Cristoph Lamarte

It doesn’t mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don’t call it violence when it’s self-defense, I call it intelligence. – Malcolm X

If you try, you might fail…if you don’t try you are guranteed to fail. – Chris Bannister

After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand & changing a soul. And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning & company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts & presents aren’t promises. And you begin to accept your defeats with your head up & your eyes ahead… & you learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans & futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. So you plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure, that you really are strong & that you really do have worth… and with every goodbye, you learn… – Unknown

Society has closed all possibilities of a fresh and open mind, if we can control our minds before our brain tells us what it is surely then we are free – Edward McEwan

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. – Oscar Wilde

Some people listen to themselves rather then listen to what others say. These people don’t come along very often, but when they do, they remind us that once you set off on a path, even though critics may doubt you, it’s ok to believe that there is no CAN’T, WON’T or IMPOSSIBLE. They remind us that it’s ok to believe that IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. – Adidas commercial

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its laws had made unlawful. – Oscar Wilde

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right. And at the end of life, when you get like me[weak/feeble], you need others to survive, right? But here’s the secret: in between, we need others as well. – Tuesdays with Morrie

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One of these is Roots; the other, Wings. – Hodding Carter

The object of war isn’t to die for your country but to make the other poor bastard die for his. – General George Patton

Leaving Quotes

“I remember what you told me before you went out on your own. Sometimes to keep it together, you’ve got to leave it alone.” – Unknown

“One day we’ll wave ‘hello’ and wish we’d never waved ‘goodbye.'” – Unknown

“I want to remember how you’ve made me laugh and sometimes cry, and I never want to forget how special and different you are and how you’ve touched my heart in a way that no one else could.” – Unknown

“I know that you didn’t mean it and I know that you think saying sorry will make it better, but that’s not how the world works. It’s an imperfect world and feelings just don’t go away that fast. So either you never really loved me or you’re just hiding it because you’re scared. Well let me tell you, hiding something will get you nowhere and lying sure as hell won’t make you happy so go ahead and leave me but in the end you will see your mistake and come back. But you know what? I won’t be here.” – Unknown

“Why am I holding onto this? I know there’ll be nothing more to us except you using me. I need to make myself strong. I can’t let you break me more then you already have.” – Drea

“Before you leave, promise me one thing – that you won’t forget what we had. Because it was special, I know it was. And if I could go back in time, you know I would go back to you.” – Unknown

“I made the choice to finally go because I can’t stand this pain. It’s time for my last tear to fall and me to smile again.” – Unknown

“I pity him because I get to walk away and be me, and he has to stay him ya know? And who wants to be him when you could be me?” – Sex and the City

“I sat there and stared at you. I just couldn’t understand how such an amazing person could be in my life. And then all of a sudden I got extremely scared. You kissed me, and told me not to worry, there was no way you’d ever leave me. I felt a sense of comfort. I believed you. That is, until you left.” – Joanne Golden

“No more crying. I can’t cry anymore. Don’t take my hand this time, just go please and don’t look back. Because I know if you did, I would come running back to you.” – Unknown

“No more loneliness and heartache, no more crying myself to sleep, no more wondering about tomorrow. Won’t you come back to me? Come back to me. Do I ever cross your mind anytime? Do you ever wake up reaching out for me? Do I ever cross your mind anytime? I miss you..” – Brian McKnight, ‘Anytime’

“All I ever wanted was to make you happy. I can only do that by stepping aside. I just have one favor to ask of you… remember me.” – Family Matters

“And so if I have to leave you, I want you to know that in the end, it wasn’t because I stopped caring, it’s because you stopped being a friend.” – Unknown

“The hardest mile I’ve ever walked was the one away from you.” – Unknown

“So maybe you were special, and maybe you were supposed to be the one, but then again maybe you were just like the rest of them, only you took my heart with you when you left.” – Unknown

“From the moment he said hello, I could see goodbye in his eyes.” – Roseanne

“How can I say goodbye to you without losing myself too?” – Lost North Star

“I love you enough to let you go, but do you love me enough to come back?” – Unknown

“You turned away from opportunities to sit and talk things through but now when I say I’m leaving you, you have so much to prove.” –Brandy, Tomorrow

“So long to all my pain. Good night to my heartache. Goodbye sorrow. I won’t cry no more. I’m leaving tomorrow.” –Brandy, ‘Tomorrow’

“You couldn’t even say I’m sorry for all the hurt and pain you caused me. Now I am supposed to give my deepest sympathy? You see I had enough of cryin’ and I’m tired of all the lyin’. You see I refuse to let you take advantage of me, baby.” – Brandy, ‘Learn the Hard Way’

“It’s so hard to say goodbye to you. My heart knows the words, they just won’t pump up to my lips.” – Family Matters

“So, here I am again. ending yet another pathetic excuse for a relationship. And it always seems one things is always the same about it. I’m always the one who walks away from it all. Away from the person who always said he’d never let me go. Well, once again, I’m walking away… And once again, no one is stopping me.” – Unknown

“And every time I see you my heart falls to the floor and I want to stop you from walking away and I want to tell you everything, tell you how I feel, tell you that sometimes when you’re not even noticing, I look into your eyes, and when I do, it’s not my love for you I see, its my need.” – Unknown

“Sometimes what may be the best thing for you to do, sometimes that’s the hardest thing for you to do. And that’s real cause I know I love you, I know how I feel about you. But I also know that don’t make everything all right. And for that reason I gotta say goodbye.” – Jagged Edge, ‘Goodbye’

“Maybe I was just a stepping stone for you to get to that point in your life where you’d figure out what you wanted, or didn’t want. So to prove to you that I love you and all I want is for you to be happy, I’ll walk away.” – Unknown

“So kiss me hard ’cause this will be the last time that I let you. You will be back someday and this awkward kiss that tells of other people’s lips will be of service to keeping you away.” – dashboard confessional, “best deceptions”

“As you walk away I see the fire in your eyes and I can hear the laughter in your voice as you watch my heart break. And I’m frozen. I can’t find the words to tell you that I hate you. I can’t tell you how I wish you would just leave my life forever. And I can’t tell you how much I hope she hurts you. So instead I tell you I love you. Hoping that the fire in your eyes die down, and the laughter in your voice becomes tears in your eyes, and you turn around and unbreak my heart. Only to realize that wishes often dont come true, and hearts are more often then not, broken. And I stand there and watch you walk away.” – Unknown

“I think of a while ago, we might have had it all, I was so stupid then, you needed time to grow. But now just as things change, as well my feelings do. In time things rearrange and I’m so sick of chasing you.” – Blink182

“I feel safe around him, he’s like this great man in my life and he’s leaving.” – Sex and the City

“I can’t go any further down this love road and have my heart broken.” – Sex and the City

“I never thought saying two words would be so hard. I said them a thousand times, but it has never ever been so hard. That night as we stood in my drive way I didn’t want the night to end… I knew those words were coming but I didn’t wanna hear them. You said them then I said them too. I turned and walked away, tears in my eyes I will never forget that night I had to say good bye.” – Unknown

“Baby, one more thing before you go, in case you didn’t know, I wouldn’t trade you for the world.” – Weekend Excursion

“I wish there was something I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you, but I’d rather walk alone then chase you around, I’d rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.” – Ben Harper

“Goodbye is too good a word, babe, so I’ll just say fare thee well, I ain’t sayin you treated me unkind, you coulda done better but I don’t mind, you just kinda wasted my precious time, but don’t think twice it’s all right.” – Bob Dylan

“I always wanted to try for you..I’d have done anything and more. But now you’re so far out of reach. I’ve tried to hold on..but I just can’t anymore. I’m tired of trying for something that never get any better. I’m tired of the pain. So from now on we’ll live our lives apart from each other, and we’ll pretend we don’t remember everything we’ve shared. But I would’ve done anything for you..and I still would.” – Allison

“I feel like I am holding you back. Like you’re missing out on something else by hanging on with me. And I don’t want you to miss anything.” – Allison

“Love hurts. It takes strength to keep it going and right now, I just don’t have the strength or the will power. Please just try to understand.” – Michelle Burns

“I love you, I really do, and yet you still hurt me. But thats ok, I can walk away. I can let you leave because in the end, I’ll know you didnt leave because I wasnt pretty enough, or smart enough, or nice enough. You left me because you don’t care about me, because you’re scared, and because you cant make up your mind. I didn’t do a thing wrong, except maybe choose the wrong guy.” – Unknown

“I don’t get how you can just walk away from this. We’ve worked so hard to be together, we’ve broken every rule they could have given us, and now you’re just leaving… I thought I meant more to you than that.” – Michelle Burns

“I can’t write this thing. I have to answer one simple question, right? Who am I? But if I have to leave town and you and my life to figure that out, what does that say?” – Party of Five

“I know exactly who I am, and I’m just afraid to say it out loud… I love you, so much. I really do. But I’m 19, and in college, and for me that means trying stuff out, like making mistakes. But mistakes where I can take an incomplete if things aren’t working out, not mistakes where other people’s lives are riding on what I choose.” – Party of Five

“I live to like you and I can’t like you anymore. So when you get your heart splattered all over hell and you’re feeling really low and dirty, don’t run to me to help pull you back up because, maybe, for the first time in your life, I won’t be there.” – Pretty in Pink

“There are just certain people who aren’t meant to fit in your life no matter how much you want them to.” – Dawson’s Creek

“Life has been screaming at us, ‘It’s not meant to be.’ I wish I could stay, but the fact of the matter is that that wouldn’t be good for either one of us. I’ve been away from home for too long, and you… you’ve been trying to find where you wanna be. I’m slowing you down. You’ll find what you’re looking for faster without me.” – Party of Five

“I don’t want to make you feel terrible anymore.” – 90210

“Cuz if I don’t go right now, things are gonna change.” – Roswell

“You’re leaving. You’re finally walking out that door. And it hurts because there’s nothing I can do to change your mind.” – Joanne Golden

“Honey help me out of this mess. I’m a stranger to myself, but don’t reach for me, I’m too far away. I don’t wanna talk cause there’s nothing left to say. So my darling, give me your absence tonight. Take all of your sympathy and leave it outside. Cause there’s no kind of loving that can make this all right. I’m trying to find a place I belong and I suddenly feel like a different person.” – Fiona Apple

“So I’ll ask you, If I walked away right now, would you come after me?”- Unknown

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Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain Hilarious Quotes

I love hilarious quotes, especially from great people, like Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Let me share with you some of them:

“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Oscar Wilde

“Journalism is unreadable, literature is never read.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

“A true friend stabs you in the front.”-Oscar Wilde

“It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one’s enemies. It is the successes of one’s friends that are hard to bear.” – Oscar Wilde

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” – Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” – Oscar Wilde

“I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” – Oscar Wilde

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.” – Oscar Wilde

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” –Oscar Wilde

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” –Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” – Oscar Wilde

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.” – Oscar Wilde

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” – Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“When angry count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” –Mark Twain

“In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.” – Mark Twain

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” –Mark Twain

“Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.” – Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain