“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
Fitness is a conversation between your body and your willpower. These quotes cover the grind, the breakthroughs, the days you do not feel like showing up, and the satisfaction of proving to yourself that you can do hard things.
“If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.”
“Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.”
“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”
“Resting for me is fitness training.”
“Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.”
“Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.”
“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”
“No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.”
“Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.”
“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
“Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.”
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”
“For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain in the triathlon of chasing someone down. It's a bit like chasing down Nico Rosberg in the last few laps at Silverstone - it makes you feel alive.”
“Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.”
“At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?”
“The first wealth is health.”