Joseph Pilates

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

— Joseph Pilates

A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

— Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

— Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

— Joseph Pilates

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

— Joseph Pilates

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

— Joseph Pilates

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

— Joseph Pilates

Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

— Joseph Pilates

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

— Joseph Pilates

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

— Joseph Pilates

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the…

— Joseph Pilates

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias.…

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium…

— Joseph Pilates

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in…

— Joseph Pilates

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments.…

— Joseph Pilates

The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of…

— Joseph Pilates

I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be…

— Joseph Pilates

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results…

— Joseph Pilates

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

— Joseph Pilates

In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body

— Joseph Pilates

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

— Joseph Pilates

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

— Joseph Pilates

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

— Joseph Pilates

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

— Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

— Joseph Pilates

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence…

— Joseph Pilates

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what…

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

— Joseph Pilates

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind…

— Joseph Pilates

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as…

— Joseph Pilates

To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire…

— Joseph Pilates

A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.

— Joseph Pilates

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends…

— Joseph Pilates