136 Body Weight Quotes

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Famous Body Weight Quotes

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness. - Isamu Noguchi

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness. — Isamu Noguchi

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. — Francis Quarles

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs. — Charles Babbage

Health-wise, weight is just a minor component compared to the power of aging. — Valter Longo

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. — Allen Ginsberg

At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big. — Dorian Yates

I gained 2 pounds of muscle mass looking at Jocko Willink's Instagram. — Theo Von

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body. — David Soul

Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight. — Jonathan Gruber

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance. — Archimedes

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. — Sri Chinmoy

It’s similar to what has happened with weight. In the late 1970s, the average American adult male weighed 173 pounds. Now the average American man tips the scale at nearly 200 pounds. — Peter Attia

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. - Laurie Halse Anderson

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body. — Dmitri Mendeleev

Short Body Weight Quotes

  • You know you've reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up. — Bob Hope
  • The only way to lose weight is to check it as airline baggage. — Peggy Ryan
  • I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. — Coco Chanel
  • Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid. — Carlos Castaneda
  • Heaviest thing to carry -- a grudge — Unknown
  • Wimps lift Weights, Cheerleaders lift People — Stephanie
  • Strength without agility is a mere mass. — Fernando Pessoa
  • Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result. — Baba Amte
  • The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside. — Patrick Carman

Body Weight Image Quotes

I could eat my body weight in sushi. - Sayings quote

I could eat my body weight in sushi. — Sayings

Body weight quote If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.

Body Weight Loss Quotes

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. — George Bernard Shaw

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. — Bob Hope

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart. — Geneen Roth

Body weight quote Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.

While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting. — Cullen Hightower

Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise. — Jillian Michaels

Body weight quote Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.
Just as the water reflects the stars and the moon, the body reflects the mind and soul.

A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. — Juvenal

Frequently, visualization is the key to lose weight. Imagine yourself with your desired body, and work for it. At some point in the future, this wish will come true. — David Viscott

If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose. — Julius Erving

When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out. — Bill Phillips

Body Weight Fitness Quotes

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman

I do a lot of body weight stuff, power work, with your legs as well. There are weights involved now and again. There is a bit of mixture. — Harry Kane

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Body weight quote To change your body you must first change your mind.
To change your body you must first change your mind.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. — Deborah Bull

Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals. — Robert Cheeke

Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness. — Alan Cohen

Body weight quote Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.

I don't feel the obligation to be a specific weight. I don't feel like I have to fit into a body that's not my body. I have the body I have and I try to maintain it. — Scarlett Johansson

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky. — Serena Williams

Weight Loss Motivation Quotes

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. - Zig Ziglar

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. — Zig Ziglar

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going! - Jillian Michaels

Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going! — Jillian Michaels

Body weight quote Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is
Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is changing your body from the inside. Never get discouraged.

Rule your mind or it will rule you. — Horace

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. — Harry Secombe

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat. — Jill Johnson

Body weight quote Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner — Henry Sambrooke Leigh

Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent. — Laura Ramirez

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel

Weigh Day Quotes

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold! — Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down was the day she began to shine the brightest. — Katrina Mayer

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. — William O. Douglas

Body weight quote Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.
Take care of your body, it's the only home you have.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed. — Albert Schweitzer

After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money. — Edna Buchanan

Body weight quote Love does not look at your body or face, rather it looks at your heart
Love does not look at your body or face, rather it looks at your heart

I know that he, Matthew Broderick, doesn't have his laundry done, and that he hasn't had a hot meal in days. That stuff weighs on my mind. — Sarah Jessica Parker

I love spaghetti. And I like to cook spaghetti. And I used to eat it every day. I weighed thirty pounds more than I do now. You can't - you can't do that. — Christopher Walken

On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily on the negative side, then I get very scared and just think about eternal damnation and how unpleasant that would be. — Will Oldham

I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people. — Richard Simmons

Weight Journey Quotes

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. — Richard Francis Burton

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. — Richard Burton

Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather. — Suzy Kassem

Body weight quote Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more thin
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole. — Wendy Wasserstein

I had started losing weight. I mean he didn't know anything about the journey that I was on at that point obviously but from my highest weight of just over 300 pounds I lost about 45 pounds. — Star Jones

Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity. — Ruby Gettinger

Body weight quote A room without books is like a body without a soul.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Your journey to a healthier weight is not a journey that you start and then give up. It is a journey that you are living every day for the rest of your life. — Nhat Hanh

A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way! — Judith S. Beck

Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Body Fat Quotes

To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. — Marilyn Monroe

I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling. — Kendall Jenner

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat. — Neal Barnard

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass. — Dave Barry

The business of beauty isn't a natural model; It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles. — Immortal Technique

My body had become an entombment of fat covering the pain and loneliness of a broken heart and spirit. — Bryant H. McGill

I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world. — Demi Lovato

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart. — Kate Walsh

Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body. — Michael F. Jacobson

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy! — Kristen Bell

Healthy Weight Quotes

Eating a low-carb, high-fat diet can help support healthy blood sugar levels and weight management. — Steven Gundry

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett

I don't do this to be healthy, I do this to get big muscles. — Markus Ruhl

I know what I have to do if I want to lose weight and stay healthy: eat a proper diet and exercise. All I've got to do is apply it. — John Candy

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. — John Updike

Getting healthy isn't just about losing weight. It's not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It's about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change - spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas. — Lysa TerKeurst

It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role. — Brandon Lee

I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life. — Jennifer Hudson

I'm a competitive bodybuilder; I'm not training just to be healthy. Ninety-five percent of the people training with weights are into this health thing, and it's a different mentality entirely. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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More Body Weight Quotes

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to turn a self portrait into a masterpiece. — Kai Greene

According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway. — Igor Sikorsky

I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off. — Ashley Graham

MSP workouts involve full-body functional movements like deadlifts, squats, leg presses, and vertical jumps. MSP workouts feature heavy weights, few reps, and more rest. By doing a succession of mini-sets, you 'go max or go home. — Mark Sisson

For every ten pounds of fat lost in our bodies, eight and a half pounds of it comes out through the lungs; most of it is carbon dioxide mixed with a bit of water vapor. The rest is sweated or urinated out. This is a fact that most doctors, nutritionists, and other medical professionals have historically gotten wrong. The lungs are the weight-regulating system of the body. — James Nestor

You want to shock the body and not be constant. Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular way: Skip breakfast, for example. Also lifting weights, losing your breath from exercise and alternating between hot and cold temperatures. We think these measures will only get us to 100 to 122 years old. That's our natural lifespan. — David Sinclair

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain. — Alicia Sacramone

I just can't get enough of the machinating and arguing about this supplement versus that supplement ... You shouldn't be having those arguments until you have your exercise house in order. You shouldn't be arguing about this nuance of your carnivore diet versus this nuance of your paleo diet versus this nuance of your vegan diet until you can deadlift your body weight for 10 reps. — Peter Attia

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. — Italo Calvino

I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards. — Khloe Kardashian

In fact, several studies have shown that losing weight and exercising vigorously can sometimes actually reverse the disease diabetes, at least during its early stages. One extreme study placed eleven diabetics on a grueling ultra-low-calorie diet of just 600 calories per day for eight weeks. Six hundred calories is an extreme diet that would challenge most people it’s about two tuna fish sandwiches a day. After two months, however, these seriously food-deprived diabetics had lost an average of 13 kilograms 27 pounds, mostly visceral fat, their pancreases doubled how much insulin they could produce, and they recovered nearly normal levels of insulin sensitivity. Vigorous physical activity also has potent reversal effects by causing your body to produce hormones glucagon, cortisol, and others that cause your liver, muscle, and fat cells to release energy. These hormones temporarily block the action of insulin while you exercise, and then they increase the sensitivity of these cells to insulin for up to sixteen hours following each bout of exercise. — Daniel Lieberman

That's a good weight...for a small woman — Dorian Yates

The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal. — Veronica Roth

The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance. — George Jung

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom. — Aleister Crowley

There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights. — Richard Simmons

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. — Kurt Cobain

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly

My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on. — Sylvie Guillem

You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit. — Phil Jackson

A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat. — 50 Cent

My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight. — Johannes Kepler

I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio. — Vidya Balan

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved. — William Harvey

PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body. — Chalene Johnson

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight. — Jane Hirshfield

Kids nowadays...tend to go overboard [on] protein - something I believe to be totally unnecsssary...[I state in] my formula for basic good eating: Eat about one gram of protein for every two pounds of body weight. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty. — Tony Robbins

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga. — Kajol

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. — Andre Sainte-Lague

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