Quotes: Seniors/Fitness

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Unknown

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." ~John Barrymore

"A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!" ~Tom Wilson

"A woman who gains weight will live longer than a man who mentions it."

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ~Mark Twain

"All around you people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely.  But, dear children, do not tiptoe.  Run, hop, skip or dance, just don't tiptoe." ~ A College Professor

"All my life I always wanted to be somebody.  Now I see that I should have been more specific." ~Jane Wagner

"Anything can happen to me tomorrow, but at least nothing more can happen to me yesterday."

"As a loving mother cares for her children, they bloom like flowers in a well-tended garden for all the world to enjoy." ~ Jeannine Carroll (Dedicated to Amy- the best mother she knows!)

"As we grow older, we discover that we have two hands: One for helping ourselves, the second for helping others." ~Unknown

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.  At 40, we don't care what they think of us.  At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all." ~Jock Falkson

"Be the reason someone smiles today."

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud."  ~Maya Angelou

"Best friends are the people in your life who make you laugh louder, smile brighter, and live better."

"Beware of the barrenness of an overcrowded life."

"Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night."

"Celebrate your progress.  Don't wait to get perfect." ~Ann McGee Cooper

"Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege."

"Do the next right thing."

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." 

"Do you know how to tell a true friend?  When they talk behind your back, they say good things!"


"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.  The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: COULD HAVE, MIGHT HAVE, and SHOULD HAVE." ~Louis E. Boone

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." ~Jack Canfield

"Dream as if you'll live forever.  Live as if you'll die today." ~James Dean

"Each day do more than you have to do-with a cheerful, positive outlook!  Give of yourself more than you've ever done before-knowing that your returns in life must  be in direct proportion to what you give."

"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."  ~Kurt Vonnegut

"Every day we are called to do small things with great love."- Mother Teresa

"Every time you are not practicing, someone else is...when you play them, they will win."

"Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old."  Jonathan Swift

"Everything will be okay in the end.  If  it's not okay, it's not the end!" -Unknown

"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it."

"First we inspire them, then we perspire them!" - Jack LaLanne

"Follow the grain in your own wood." - Howard Thurman

"For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back." ~Napoleon Hill

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."- Mark Twain

"He, who has health, has hope, and he who has hope has every thing." ~Arabian Proverb

"Here is the test to determine whether your mission on earth is finished:             If you're alive, it isn't ~Richard Bach

"Hips don't lie."

"I act with bold courage:  Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step-large and small-with courage and intent." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"I boldly take every step I can, whether large or small, to assist my amazing body in maintaining health and vitality."

"I can't promise my grandchildren that I will be here the rest of their lives, but I can promise that I will love them for the rest of mine."

"I was always told to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one."

"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." David Thoreau

"If you want to feel rich, just count all the gifts you have that money can't buy!"

"If you have your good health,
You wish for many things.
If you do not have your good health,
You wish for only one..."


“It is our duty…to resist old age, to compensate for its defects, to fight against it as we would fight a disease; to adopt a regimen of health; to practice moderate exercise; and to take just enough food and drink to restore our strength.”

Cicero, 44 BC

"It may be too late already, but it's not as much too late now as it will be later." ~C H Weisert

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel!"  Maya Angelou

"If nothing changes, nothing changes."

If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done."

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away.  Try to lighten it." - Frank Tyger

"If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them."                          ~John C. Maxwell

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"If you laugh a lot, when you get older, your wrinkles will all be in the right places!"

"If you see someone without a smile, give him yours."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."  Goethe

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise!"

"If your ship doesn't come in - swim out to get it!"- Jonathan Winters

"In order to profit from our mistakes, we have to go out and make some!"

"In the end, a person is only known by the impact they have on others."

"In youth we learn, in age we understand." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Instead of quitting your day job you quit your day dreams." ~Sekou Andrews

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." ~George Eliot

"It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light, it scattered the night and made the day worth living." ~T. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."  Tony Robbins

James Baldwin talking about youngsters:  "They've never been interested in listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." 

Just because we have pains, doesn't mean we have to be one!

"Keep the path to the heart of your friend well weeded."

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."~Walt Disney

"Life is a celebration.  Enjoy it well."

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.  It's about learning to dance in the rain."

"Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."


"Live so that your life has purpose and your heart has peace." ~Jeannine Carroll

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Make every day your masterpiece!" - UCLA Coach John Wooden

"Make progress one time and it makes you happy.  Make progress day after day, week after week and it makes you a champion." ~Greg Werner

"Make the right thing to do the easy thing to do."~ Dr. Oz

"May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you, delight them."

"Most people spend less time outside than prisoners." ~J.R. Rim

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can." ~Thomas Carlyle

"Most footprints on the sands of time were put there by work boots!"

"Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside us." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."  Tony Robbins

"Move it, use it.
 Work it or loss it"

Movement is medicine.

"My objective is to die young as late in life as possible."  Dick Locher (created Dick Tracy comic strip)

"Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians." ~H>G. Bohn

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.  God may have been waiting centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."  John Andrew Holmes

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop (The Lion & The Mouse)

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." ~George Washington Carver

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

"Nowadays, parents take a "problem" child to a psychiatrist to talk through difficulties.  Granddad used the do-it-yourself method and took the kid fishing." - Eva Shaw

"Obesity is the new smoking."

"Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window.  They have to be coaxed down the stairs one step at a time." ~ Mark Twain

"Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." ~James Adams

"One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing." ~Spokes

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.  Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular."  Tony Robbins

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body." ~Unknown Author

"People don't die of old age, they die of inactivity."~Jack LaLanne

"Praise and blame, gain and loss pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind.  To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all." ~Buddha

"Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." ~Victor Kiam

"Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change." ~Catherine Pulsifer

Seen on a sign in an antique store: "We buy junk and sell antiques."

"So this is the beautiful philosophy of life, that  the more we have to do, the more we are rested, and the less we have to do, the more tired we are.  Nothing rests a man so much as plenty to do." -William Alfred Quayle

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same."

"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson

"Sometimes it's necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness."  Galway Kinnell  (Poet)

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

The best ability is dependability.

The best years of a woman's life are the ten years between 39 and 40.

The body is as young as the spine is flexible. ~Old Yogic saying

"The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago...The second best time is today.  Do it today!"

"The best way to  make a dream come true is to wake up!"

"The days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away." ~Emerson

"The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him." ~Albert Schweitzer

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."  Plutarch

"The most important trip you may take in life, is meeting people halfway." ~Henry Boyle

"The noblest revenge is to forgive."  Thomas Fuller

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune." ~English Proverb

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing."  Edmund Burke

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary!

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you will grow out of it." ~Doris Day

"The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words - it might have been." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The tendency to brood and fret
Never solved any problem yet
Worry is a rocking chair
That never takes me anywhere."

The Three Great Temptations of Old Age are:  to whine, recline and decline.

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." ~W. M. Lewis

"The world is like a mirror, frown at it, and it frowns at you.  Smile, and it smiles, too!" - Herbert Samuel
 
"The years say what the days cannot tell." ~Chinese Proverb

"There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them." ~Honorable Charles D. Gill

"There is no finish line." ~Nike Commercial

"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it behooves none of us to speak ill of the rest of us."

"Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile." ~Walt Disney

This world that we're a-livin' in
Is mighty hard to beat;
You get a thorn with every rose,
But ain't the roses sweet?  ~Frank L. Stanton

Think in terms of consequences rather than convenience.

"Those who think they don't have time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." ~Edward Stanley

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can  start now and make a brand new ending." ~Carl Bard

"To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." ~William Londen

"To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die."  ~Campbell - Hallowed Ground

"Today, you sit on the couch by choice.  Tomorrow you sit on the couch by necessity."~Jeannine Carroll


"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are nice, but because you are."

"True success is when the people who are closest to you, respect you the most."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, dream, discover." ~H. Jackson Brown

"Two things define you:  Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything."

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." ~John C. Maxwell

"Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction."

"Want to learn how to eat a lot?  Here it is:  Eat a little.  That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot."  Tony Robbins

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.  Watch your words; they become actions.  Watch your actions; they become habits.  Watch your habits; they become character.  Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny." ~Upanishads

We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"We grow too soon old and too late smart." ~Author Unknown

"Well done is better than well said."- Benjamin Franklin

"What you do today can determine what happens to your body tomorrow."               ~ Dr. Oz

"What will change because of what you are about to do?" ~Becky McCray

"When it's dark enough, men see stars." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I was young, I admired clever people.  Now that I am old, I admire kind people." ~Abraham Heschel

"When people are like each other, they tend to like each other."  Tony Robbins

"When people are put into positions slightly above what they would expect to achieve, they're apt to excel."~Richard Bronson

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

"When we give birth to a daughter, most of us have just met the person whose hand we'll be holding the day we die."  -unknown

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." ~Lao Tzu

When you walk your talk...people listen.

"Where your talents and the worlds needs cross, there lies your vocation." ~Aristotle

"We are what we read." ~Sharon Reinke

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." ~Max DePree

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."~ Martha Grimes

We squander Health
In search of Wealth
We scheme and toil and save;
Then squander Wealth
In search of Health,
And all we get's a grave.
We live and boast of what we own
We die and only get a stone. ~Anonymous

"When you run alone, you run fast.  When you run together, you run far." ~Zambian Proverb

"Win without boasting; lose without excuses."  Football Coach

"You are one workout from feeling better!" ~Randy Raugh, MPT

"You are younger today than you will ever be again.  Make the most of it for tomorrow." Anon.

You can get everything in life you want, if you help enough other people get what they want."

"You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it."- Lorene Workman

"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." ~John Wooden

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

"You can tell the size of a man by the size of a thing that makes him mad."  Adlai E. Stevenson

"You can't be anything you want, but you can be everything you are."

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old.  You grow old because you stop laughing."  Michael Pritchard

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." ~John C. Maxwell

You would make a lousy anyone else but you're the best you in existence!

"Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement." ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Your job gives you authority.  Your behavior earns you respect."  Irwin Federman

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." ~Neale Donald Walsh