Richard simmons Inspirational Quotes

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

I've never swayed from who I am. People have seen me on television, and they know what I'm like and they know what I do and they respect me for what I do. They know that I'm huggy and kissy.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

When I lost my weight, I went and bought about 15 different types of underwear to see what would look good on my new body. It's exciting!

Work hard, take care of yourself, and you'll be just fine.

A kid who moves is a kid who learns.

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

Every day you eat is every day you have to work out.

I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.

Its an eerie thing. My childhood is being washed away.

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes.

I give people permission to be kids again.

I'm a very insecure and emotional person still looking to be loved by everyone else.

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown.

I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

I get tired of negativity in our country. I get tired of people who only want to know dirt. I get tired of people who don't believe in themselves.

I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

After I talk to so many people who are so unhappy about their weight and so depressed that they don't see any rainbows in their life, after I talk to about 30 of those, then I try to walk away and pet my dog, just do something that makes me happy.

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

When you gain weight, for every pound that you gain, it adds four pounds of stress on your knees. So if you gain five pounds, you've got 20 pounds of stress on your knees. So that's why I'm extremely careful with my portions and my workout, because I can't be overweight.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

After all the throwing up, I would starve myself. Which meant eating lettuce and water for two and a half months. I almost lost my life.

If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Everyone in Senate is a hurdle, but everyone in there has children. Everyone in there has grandchildren. No one wants to see our kids continue to gain weight, have high blood pressure high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression.

I have two rules for living in the world. I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere. And two, if people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

Being successful is something that's sometimes hard to deal with.

I'm such a huge fan, and I've done classes of all Lady Gaga music. And she's just someone who evokes freedom and love for her fans and passion in what she does. Lady Gaga, I'll take you out for a salad anytime.

How do you get motivated? By knowing your worth. Americans do not know how worthy they are. You deserve to be healthy, but a lot of times, people have, as childs been told - as a children been told that they're no good, that they're never going to be anything else.

Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.

Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, "Farewell to Fat".

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There's no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

For my workout, I'm up at 4am. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done. One day I'll tone - chest, back and shoulders - and the next day it's biceps and triceps. I also do 45 minutes of cardio every day. I do that before I even leave the house.

Every day after school, for three hours a day, I would sell those pralines on the street corner. I was just eight years old. I'd bring the money home to my parents and say, "This is just the beginning."

I'm like a stuffed toy. You've never met me, but if you did, you'd just want to take me home and put me in your child's room.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity. My whole career, I have never done anything where competition was involved with weight loss.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.

The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.

Therell always be some weird thing about eating four grapes before you go to bed, or drinking a special tea, or buying this little bean from El Salvador.

Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.

No one can make fun of overweight people in front of me!

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

There is no such thing as sleep deprivation, there is only caffeine deficiency.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do.

I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run.

Thats what we need going into the millennium. We need some positive, happy stuff.

For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

I really created my career out of my own compulsion. Because I knew if I owned an exercise studio and I had to teach my classes there, I wasn't going to gain my weight back.

My life is just a never-ending work in progress.

Sleep is critical to me ... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my mind at least 30 minutes before I get into bed. I don't watch any disturbing or invigorating TV at night.

I never say anything negative about anyone, because that won't get you anywhere.

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

Singing is good for the soul. It's the first thing I do every morning, after my blessings and my grace. I put music on and I sing.

I just want people to get off the back burner of their life and start to take better care of themselves and their children.

I was always into staying busy, into my goals, into making notes and planning. I'm not one who truly lives in the past.

I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh.

If you want to get the body you've always dreamed of, you have to earn it.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.

People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.

I plan for the future, but the only day I really worry about is the day I'm living right now.

I just love what I do, and I'm a teacher more than anything.

I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.

I'm not going to be happy until every child in every school is physically active.

You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.

I'm the clown you take out of the box and wind up when you need a good laugh. And then, when you're done with me, I go back in my box.

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

There's a list of foods I can't have in the house. Peanut butter, can't have that in the house. Potato chips, can't have that in the house. Random little small mini candy bars, don't even think about it. I just have to watch everything. I have to stay between 1500 and 1600 calories a day. That's it.

If I have to die, I want to combust in the middle of one of my classes.

I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.

Number one, like yourself. Number two, you have to eat healthy. And number three, you've got to squeeze your buns. That's my formula.

There is no magic milkshake or workout machine. I think the real machine is your body. I do love treadmills, ellipticals, stationary bikes, free weights.