Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John MuirLet us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Thich Nhat HanhMost people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.
Haruki MurakamiThe fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad AliMeditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
Ariana GrandeI’ve learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I’ve learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I’ve found more angles to throw shots.
Conor McGregorReligion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.
Eckhart TolleArt was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David BowieI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Neil ArmstrongWhy did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
Jackie ChanIf I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
AuroraAn empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert EinsteinMy goal is to be number one in MMA.
Conor McGregorThe men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.
Dwayne JohnsonWalking is man’s best medicine.
HippocratesBe pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert HubbardEngineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Herbert HooverI’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.
Tom BradyThe only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma BombeckIf every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
Thich Nhat HanhI am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
Wayne DyerI’m never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going.
Stephen HawkingWorship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas CarlyleColombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.
Noam ChomskyMeditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
Wayne DyerIf you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
Jocko WillinkThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesI’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘
Angelina JolieIn the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
Vivienne WestwoodNot a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That’s why they don’t have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they’re limiting movement.
Conor McGregorI do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWhen I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘
Steven WrightThe first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
Karl LagerfeldRunning taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.
Nelson MandelaEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerMy rule is to break one sweat a day.
Matthew McConaugheyTotal relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam SandlerIt was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I’d put on 50 pounds.
Robert KiyosakiGlutes are power.
Conor McGregorWhen I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.
Jocko WillinkA feeble body weakens the mind.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.
Robert Baden-PowellLet my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
BuddhaI had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.
Muhammad AliPrayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma GandhiA bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis BaconIf you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.
Dan QuayleMeditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne DyerTo realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
Eckhart TolleI have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
Nelson MandelaI think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
Joel OsteenThat nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.
Jocko WillinkFor a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
Noam ChomskyI like playing basketball and going to the gym. I don’t box, but I’ll ride my bike and go jogging or running in the park. Sometimes my lady and I go hiking.
Kevin HartThis is love: the flowering of love is meditation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiPeople think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.
Conor McGregorMeditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAt one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.
Alice Walker