Plutarch Quotes

I try to work out at the least 3 days a week, and I aim for 4 to 5 days a week. I try to eat healthy, but I'm not going to say I'm best the best at that. I won't allow myself to buy junk food, but if it's somewhere and it's free, I'll eat it.

People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.

I have been following what is now called the 'Spartan Way' long before it became popular!

I never had to try as a kid to stay in shape. In a way, there was no willpower involved.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.

Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

I had the luck of having an obedient body.

I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.

There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.