Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

fitness

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.

The first wealth is health.

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.