Fitness Quote by George Wharton James

“If I did not allow myself time to exercise and prepare for the day, I would suffer but so would my children. They need…

— Tamara L. Chilver

“We in the West are the first generation in human history in which the mass of the population has to deliberately exercise to be…

— David B. Agus

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. - Plato”

— Anonymous

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum…

— John F. Kennedy

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

— Joseph Pilates

“I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless…

— Primo Levi

“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!”

— Steven Magee

“The demands of standing, walking, and running have literally shaped the entire human body from head to toe.”

— John Durant

Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They…

— Dan Buettner

“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make…

— George Santayana

“How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“Fitness, like food, family, and friends, should be fun and support your life, not take from it.”

— Robb Wolf