Here is a list of 50 quotes that riff on everything from health to friendship to perseverance to kindness. We believe health and fitness goes beyond just taking care of your body and mind, but it’s also about cultivating strong relationships, being courageous, and remembering that life is too short to not keep moving forward.
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Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. – Plato
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. – Ernest Hemingway
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
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain
The first wealth is health. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. – Goethe
Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king. – Isaac Bickerstaff
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. – Henri- Frederic Amiel
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. - John Locke
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
Garbage in garbage out – George Fuechsel
The part can never be well unless the whole is well. – Plato
Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. – Pierre de Coubertin
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -Mahatma Gandhi
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. – Dale Carnegie
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
It’s never too late to become what you might have been. – George Elliot
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.- Dr. Jonas Salk
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. – Thornton Wilder
The difficulty lies, not in new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of have been, into the corners of our minds. – John Maynard Keynes
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” ― Leo Tolstoy
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – André Gide
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. – Aristotle
Listen to the Musn’t's child, Listen to the Don’t's. Listen to the Shouldn’t's, the Impossibles, the Won’t's. Listen to the Never Haves, then Listen close to me. ANYthing can happen, child, ANYthing can Be. – Shel Silverstein
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
Life must be lived as play. – Plato
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -Jim Rohn
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.- Goethe
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. – Dalai Lama
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. – Plato
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet – Bob Dylan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. – Michael Pollan
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food – Hippocrates
Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn’t recognize as food. Stay away from these. – Michael Pollan
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. – Helen Keller
Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard M. Baruch
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty - Lao Tsu
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – C.G. Jung
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened. – Lao Tzu
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person. – Leo Tolstoy
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