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.
“Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.”
“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.”
“Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.”
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.”
“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
“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.”
“Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.”
“Happiness lies first of all in health.”
“The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.”
“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.”
“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.”
“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.”
“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?”
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
“Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.”
“Muscles come and go flab lasts.”