Friday, October 12, 2012 1:54 PM

Are there times when you just don’t feel like exercising? Maybe then give yourself a day or two off. However, if it is the “can’t be bothered attitude” or finding hard to push through some challenging times, I have listed a few of my favourites for when the going gets tough.

o Just do it!-Nike
o Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.-Joseph Pilates
o “Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.” – Alex Karras
o “Take care of your body, then the rest will automatically become stronger.” – Chuang Tzu
o No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change. -Bill Phillips
o “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
o There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things! -Oprah Winfrey
o If I'd known I was going to live so long, I’d have taken better care of myself.-Leon Eldred
o Wholesome exercise in the free air, under the wide sky, is the best medicine for body and spirit.-Sarah Louise Arnold
o Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.-Oprah Winfrey
o Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.-Carol Welch
o Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul.-Susie Michelle Cortright
o Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.-Plato
o There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. -Thomas de Quincey
o It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. -Cicero
o Do it Now!-Napoleon Hill
o Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.-John Wooden
o Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.-Vince Lombardi
o Commit to being fit and healthy, by practicing it daily. Monique Rana
o Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.-Edward Stanley
o Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.-Cher
o There are really only two requirements when it comes to exercise. One is that you do it. The other is that you continue to do it.-The New Glucose Revolution for Diabetes by Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Stephen Colagiuri, Alan W. Barclay


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