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Friday Fitness Fun Quotes

I like to find some new, inspiring nugget to live by every day. I enjoy my calendars that are filled with little pearls of wisdom and quotes. In that vein, here are a few tips to inspire your personal fitness and to keep working on your exercise program. I hope they help.

  • “Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.” – Charles Caleb Colton
  • “No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.” -Jean Paul
  • “Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them” -Hippocrates
  • “Older people shouldn’t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.” -Robert Orben
  • “Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.” -Unknown Author
  • “Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.” -Voltaire
  • “Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.” -Plutarch
  • “Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.” -Ashleigh Brilliant
  • “Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.” -Fred Perry
  • “Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.” -Goethe
  • “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 Kennedy
  • “According to this week’s Time magazine, President George Bush is a serious fitness buff. He works out 60 to 90 minutes a day with weights. Apparently he likes working out because it ‘clears his mind.’ Sometimes it works a little too well.” – Jay Leno
  • “Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, and dispossessing all my other parts of necessary fitness?”-William Shakespeare
  • “As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in reason, morality, and the natural fitness of things” – John Adams
  • “Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.” – Andre Maurois

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.