81 Quotes by Joseph Pilates

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness.

The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature.

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the ‘poisons’ generated by nervousness while lying awake.

I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They’d be happier.

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad-nausem”.

Time and progress are synonymous terms – nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will reach the masses and finally be adopted as universal.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don’t catch colds, you don’t get cancer, you don’t get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily “ad-nauseam.” Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

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