Many people’s new year’s resolution is to hit the gym and get fit. While they may start, very few of them maintain their routine. Lack of motivation is the main culprit, so here are some of the best fitness quotes that may give you the push you need.
1 “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
2 “If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.” – Vinoba Bhave
3 “Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.” – Alan Thicke
4 “A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.” – Emil Zatopek
5 “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
6 “Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.” – Fred Perry
7 “Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.” – Gene Tunney
8 “Excuses are useless, results are priceless.”
9 “No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.”
10 “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
11 “You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.”
12 “Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.” – John F. Kennedy
13 “The body achieves what the mind believes.”
14 “Exercise equals endorphins. Endorphins makes you happy.”
15 “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White
16 “The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen.”
17 “Exercise is labor without weariness.” – Samuel Johnson
18 “Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.” – Richard Simmons
19 “First you feel like dying, then you feel reborn.”
20 “You’ve got what it takes but it takes everything you’ve got.”
21 “Fit is not a destination, it is a way of life.”
22 “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it is going to be worth it.”
23 “Go the extra mile, it’s never crowded.”
24 “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
25 “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryan
26 “Fitness is like marriage. You can’t cheat on it and expect it to work.” – Bonnie Pfiester
27 “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.”
28 “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles.”
29 “The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race.”
30 “Stamina, speed, strength, skill and spirit. But the greatest of these is spirit.” – Ken Doherty
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