Joseph Pilates Quotes

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.

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

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

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.

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.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

You're only as old as your spine.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

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?

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, it is only through Contrology that this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained.

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.

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness