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“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”

Source: Cato Major: Or, A Treatise on Old Age

“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. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.”

“God never made his work for man to mend.”

Men Made Work Technology Environment Exercise Fitness Health And Fitness Physical Activity Physical Exercise Draught Physical Fitness Mending Health Fitness Exercise And Health Exercise Health Exercise And Fitness

Author:John Dryden

“Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.”

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Author:Lois Capps

“Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the heart and when we try to be of prayerful and soulful service to God in the heart of humanity.”

Giving Trying Heart Age Humanity Limits Giving Up Importance Never Giving Up Paramount Soulful Prayerful Physical Fitness Service To God

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.”

Mind Firsts Body Sound Pleasure Capable Tasks Performing Interpretation Spontaneous Attainment Maintenance Pilates Zest Physical Fitness Sound Mind Daily Tasks

Book:Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”

Firsts Pilates Physical Fitness

Book:Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

Source: Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.”

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Author:Joseph Pilates

“We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.”

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Author:Kenneth H. Cooper

“Well as for Ian Rush, he's perfectly fit, apart, that is, from his physical fitness”

Wells Fit Soccer Funny Soccer Physical Fitness

Author:Mike England

“The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.”

Use America Opportunity Individual Nations Citizens Capacity Realization Fitness Prerequisites Full Potential Physical Fitness

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.”

Form Bases Excellence Physical Fitness

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being”

“Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living”

Rich Development Exercise Aspect Personal Development Radiant Physical Fitness

Author:Hugh B. Brown

“I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.”

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Author:Stephen L. Richards

“Critics have noted Schwarzenegger's only previous government experience was serving under President Bush senior as Chairman of the Council of Physical Fitness, a largely symbolic office, where Schwarzenegger's only responsibility was doing hundreds of jumping jacks he was going to do anyway.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.”

“There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.”

Men Done Taken Exercise Physical Fitness

Book:The Imitation of Christ

Source: The Imitation of Christ

“In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy”

Men Important He Man Sells Physical Fitness

Book:The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

Source: The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society

“My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.”

Wanted Daddy Physical Fitness

Author:Judy Johnson

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