Motivational Quotes

Exercise

Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.

- Edward Ugel

Best Quotes about Exercise

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

Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.

Joseph VanderStel

Exercise: you don't have time not to.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Jerrold, Douglas William

There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!

Oprah Winfrey

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Brodkey, Harold

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

Anna Quindlen

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Evan Esar

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

Percival, Lord

10.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Buzz Aldrin

11.

Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

Jef Mallett

12.

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Leifer, Carol

13.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison

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Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. It makes it feel needed.

Schulz, Charles M.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Lemons, Abe

17.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

Mccord, David

18.

Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.

Hutchins, Robert M.

19.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

Kennedy, John F.

21.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

22.

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Paglia, Camille

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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Jerome, St.

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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

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Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy.

Edward Ugel

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Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Cher

27.

You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.

Laura Moncur

28.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

Ashford, Evelyn

29.

NothingÆs better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.

Aaron Douglas Trimble

30.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

31.

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

Bombeck, Erma

32.

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.

James Rippe

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I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace

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Worrying about gray hair when your weight's soaring out of control is like mowing your lawn while your house is on fire.

Edward Ugel

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Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Paul, Jean

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Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it.

Ford, Henry

38.

Dig where the gold isàunless you just need some exercise.

John M. Capozzi

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We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

Kennedy, John F.