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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Sep 19, 2025
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.
Health is worth more than learning.
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.
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.
Dreams do not work unless you do.
There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.
Never give up what you want most for what you want today.
If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you've never juiced vegetables, start. If you've never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness.
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Dreams don't work unless you do
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
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.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.
There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
I've missed more than 9000 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.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.
If you think you can't, you're right.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.