Exercise Quotes

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Exercise Quotes and Quotations

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ~A.A. Milne

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. ~Richard Branson

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. ~Mary Kay Ash

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. ~Joan Welsh

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise. ~Linford Christie

Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. ~Author Unknown

An hour of basketball feels like 15 minutes. An hour on a treadmill feels like a weekend in traffic school. ~David Walters

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. ~Julie Bishop

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out. ~Norman Mailer

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. ~Lillie Langtry

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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. ~James Madison

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~Sigmund Freud

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ~Henry R. Luce

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating. ~

Commit to be fit. ~Author Unknown

Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise. ~Mike Ditka

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate. ~Author Unknown

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it. ~Henry Ford

Exercise is labor without weariness. ~Samuel Johnson

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Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. ~Michelle Obama

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia. ~Barbara Ehrenreich

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. ~Gene Tunney

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. ~Lee Haney

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. ~Terry Pratchett

Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. ~Paula Abdul

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher

Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. ~Sasha Cohen

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. ~Naguib Mahfouz

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. ~Francis Bacon

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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. ~Alan Dershowitz

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. ~Jose Marti

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain

I began by doing physical yoga, initially just for the workout, as exercise. I would get peaceful and calm at the end of it, and I was curious about that. ~Mariel Hemingway

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government. ~Louis Farrakhan

I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell. ~Alec Yuill Thornton

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others. ~Billy Sunday

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

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga. ~Danica McKellar

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. ~Mark Twain

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I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing. ~Marsha Doble

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. ~Ellen DeGeneres

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. ~Benjamin Disraeli

I think that making love is the best form of exercise. ~Cary Grant

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life. ~Sofia Vergara

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. ~Helen Reddy

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. ~Samuel Beckett

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. ~Vinoba Bhave

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. ~Joey Adams

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor. ~Christiaan Barnard

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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. ~Hippocrates

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. ~Cate Blanchett

If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise. ~Author Unknown

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach. ~Bruce Jenner

I'm definitely up in weight. I'm looking forward to getting an exercise routine again. It's like a daily decision. ~Carnie Wilson

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ~W. Somerset Maugham

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. ~Mao Tse-Tung

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ~Havelock Ellis

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. ~Konrad Lorenz

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ~Gore Vidal

It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with. ~Mitt Romney

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. ~Plato

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning. ~Thomas Jefferson

Let each man exercise the art he knows. ~Aristophanes

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. ~Albert Schweitzer

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence. ~Titus Livius

Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states. ~Carol Welch

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it. ~Eric Bana

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit. ~Phyllis Diller

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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. ~Cher

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. ~John Adams

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem. ~Chris Adams

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. ~Joseph Pilates

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it. ~Marilyn Hacker

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Joseph Addison

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ~Honore de Balzac

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. ~Jack LaLanne

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ~John Owen

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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. ~John Henry Newman

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck! ~Author Unknown

The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis. ~Moira Nordholt, feelgoodguru.com

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~Jean-Paul Sartre

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. ~Felix Frankfurter

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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ~Donald Rumsfeld

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ~Edward Gibbon

The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it jumping up and down." ~Rita Rudner

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it. ~Carnie Wilson

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. ~Thomas de Quincey

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There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise. ~Julianne Hough

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ~William Godwin

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ~Edward Stanley

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ~Adam Smith

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. ~Alan Bleasdale

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast. ~Thomas Jefferson

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ~John Stuart Mill

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life. ~Cynthia Nixon

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What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise. ~Shigeru Miyamoto

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ~Maggie Gallagher

When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now. ~Mike Ditka

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. ~Robert M. Hutchins

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With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. ~Ben Kingsley

You can cheat on your boyfriend or girlfriend but not on your workout. ~Author Unknown

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. ~Major Owens

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