Top 100 Jack LaLanne Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”

— Jack LaLanne

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2. “If man made it, don’t eat it.”

— Jack LaLanne

3. “People don’t die of old age, they die of neglect.”

— Jack LaLanne

4. “Anything in life is possible, if you make it happen.”

— Jack LaLanne

5. “Progress is made where progress is measured.”

— Jack LaLanne

6. “If it tastes good, spit it out!”

— Jack LaLanne

7. “Everything you do in life, I don’t care, good or bad – don’t blame God, don’t blame the devil, don’t blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.”

— Jack LaLanne

8. “Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.”

— Jack LaLanne

9. “Your waistline is your lifeline.”

— Jack LaLanne

10. “Develop a positive attitude. Think and picture how amazing you are going to be. Visualize it!”

— Jack LaLanne

11. “You’ve got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they’re the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.”

— Jack LaLanne

12. “There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.”

— Jack LaLanne

13. “Those who begin to exercise regularly and replace white flour, sugar and devitalized foods with live, organic natural foods begin to feel better immediately. Exercise is king, nutrition is queen – put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”

— Jack LaLanne

14. “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.”

— Jack LaLanne

15. “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.”

— Jack LaLanne

16. “Eat right and you can’t go wrong.”

— Jack LaLanne

17. “It’s difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!”

— Jack LaLanne

18. “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!”

— Jack LaLanne

19. “The only way you can hurt your body is if you don’t use it.”

— Jack LaLanne

20. “If you want to change somebody, don’t preach to him. Set an example and shut up.”

— Jack LaLanne

21. “Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.”

— Jack LaLanne

22. “Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill.”

— Jack LaLanne

23. “Better to wear out than rust out.”

— Jack LaLanne

24. “I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living!”

— Jack LaLanne

25. “As it’s often been said, the rest of your life is the best of your life. I’m reaching for your hand now to help you reassess your attitude on living and jump into the happiest, healthiest, most productive years you will ever have.”

— Jack LaLanne

26. “Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don’t exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray ‘Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.’”

— Jack LaLanne

27. “It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.”

— Jack LaLanne

28. “Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.”

— Jack LaLanne

29. “You see, you don’t get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.”

— Jack LaLanne

30. “Forget about what you used to do. Don’t make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, “Oh the good old days” – the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.”

— Jack LaLanne

31. “Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.”

— Jack LaLanne

32. “Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it’s never too late.”

— Jack LaLanne

33. “Who puts the food in your mouth? Who goes to the bathroom for ya? You do. You came on this earth alone and you are going to leave alone. Think about it. If anything happens to Jack La Lanne good or bad, I made it happen. If anything happens to you good or bad, you made it happen – right?”

— Jack LaLanne

34. “The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.”

— Jack LaLanne

35. “Ask the guys who are doing serious triathlons if there are any limits to what can be done. The limit is right here. You’ve got to get physically fit between the ears. Muscles don’t know anything. They have to be taught.”

— Jack LaLanne

36. “I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don’t eat between meals. I eat at 11 o’clock in the morning and 7 o’clock at night.”

— Jack LaLanne

37. “The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.”

— Jack LaLanne

38. “I’ve always liked fast cars and slow women.”

— Jack LaLanne

39. “The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.”

— Jack LaLanne

40. “By exercise. I’ll tell you one thing, you don’t always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I’m on the road.”

— Jack LaLanne

41. “You can’t separate the mind and body. It’s impossible.”

— Jack LaLanne

42. “I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.”

— Jack LaLanne

43. “When it comes to health, diet is the Queen, but exercise is the King.”

— Jack LaLanne

44. “My workout is my obligation to life. It’s my tranquilizer. It’s part of the way I tell the truth – and telling the truth is what’s kept me going all these years.”

— Jack LaLanne

45. “Any stupid ass can die- you have to work at living!”

— Jack LaLanne

46. “Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring it on or aggravate it until there’s almost no coping with it. That’s why you find sleeping pills in so many medicine cabinets next to the laxatives.”

— Jack LaLanne

47. “Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise – whether you’re 18 or 88. But the intensity is what’s lacking in most people’s workouts. And there are doctors who’ll give you the advice, “Well, don’t push it.””

— Jack LaLanne

48. “Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.”

— Jack LaLanne

49. “The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don’t know it.”

— Jack LaLanne

50. “Never, ever get satisfied; keep the carrot in front of the horse.”

— Jack LaLanne