81 Quotes by Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

A man is as young as his spinal column.

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.