Body Quotes

12166 Body quotes by 5620 unique authors

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. — Clifton Fadiman
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body. — Yagyu Munenori
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,… — Phillip Lopate
The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind. — Sylvia Plath
The body is a damn hard thing to kill. — Anne Sexton
The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body. — Niccolo Machiavelli
By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit. — Mahatma Gandhi
Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong. — John F. Kennedy
The essence of education is the education of the body. — Benjamin Disraeli
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,… — Khalil Gibran
I don't believe in bodybuilders using steroids. If a man doesn't have enough male hormones in his system to create, a nice hard, muscular body,… — Unknown Author
The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size. It's only when… — Bill Starr
Regarding the mantra..."There is no overtraining" Just because you can handle large amounts of volume doesn't mean it's needed. That's the crux of the issue.… — Steve Shaw
It is harder to be a lifter than a bodybuilder...lifting is purely masculine whereas bodybuilding entails feminine traits. Bodybuilding reminds me of a woman getting… — Doug Hepburn
You must understand that the workout does not actually produce muscular growth. The workout is merely a trigger that sets the body's growth mechanism into… — Mike Mentzer
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind… — Henry Rollins
I swam the race like I trained to swim it. It is not mathematical. I just let my body do it. It is a lot… — Ian Thorpe
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. — William Shakespeare
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore
My body is normal, and I'm not trying to prove anything. — Lucy Hale
My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. — Serena Williams
I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body. — Demi Lovato
I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large… — Yuri Gagarin
I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can… — Unknown Author

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