A Quote by Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Joseph Pilates

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Joseph Pilates
German - Businessman
December 9, 1883 - October 9, 1967

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

Joseph Pilates

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

Herbert Spencer

We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.

Kenneth H. Cooper

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Edward Gibbon

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Karl Marx

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Euripides

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Charles Caleb Colton

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

Viswanathan Anand

Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.

Steve Allen

Mental fitness is obviously important to being an astronaut, but so it physical fitness. For example, space walks are extremely physically demanding. We train for them in a giant swimming pool and we wear this suit that weighs about 300 pounds.

Shannon Walker

At the end of the nineteenth century, a fanatical craze for physical fitness swept through Britain. Millions of men and women took up gymnastics, body building, and other physical exercises. Such a thing had never happened before, and it was given a name - Physical Culture.

Adam Curtis

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

Benjamin Haydon

You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.

David Lynch

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

Michael Greger

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