234 Quotes by Jack LaLanne

I never think of my age, never – I could be 20 or 100. I never think about it, I’m just me.

If you can’t afford a half hour three or four times a week taking care of the most priceless possession, your body, you’ve got to be sick. You’re stupid.

Sometimes people – especially people over 40 – underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they’re not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, “I don’t want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is.”

Your muscles know nothing. It’s your brain. Exercise is something you’ve got to do the rest of your life. It’s a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You’ve got to work at it.

I have one thing in my mind. How can I get people to start taking care of themselves? That’s all I think about.

We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you’ve go to take care of it!

If you’re tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don’t even like yourself!