EXERCISE QUOTES II

quotations about exercise

Exercise quote

No pain, no gain. Shut up and train.

ANONYMOUS


I need a stranger to scream hurtful things at me while I exercise! Because she cares!

LESLEY KINZEL

Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body


An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

journal, Apr. 20, 1840


He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it.

XENOPHON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

ANDREW SOLOMON

The Noonday Demon


Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771


I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

speech, Apr. 10, 1899


Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.

SOCRATES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

W.C. FIELDS

The Temperence Lecture


You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.

PHILIP SIDNEY

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia


Statistics show what really happens if you exercise daily--you die healthier.

EVEN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Once you realize that succeeding with exercise isn't a series of shortcuts, but rather a lesson in perseverance, you'll be on your way to making exercise a part of your life.

TIM LENCKI

Fitness One Day at a Time


The best cares or provisions for life and health, that are left us, consist in the discreet and temperate government of diet and exercise.

WILLIAM TEMPLE

"Of Health and Long Life"


Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you throw a ball, run on a treadmill, or jog along the shore, billions of cells are "seeing" the outside world. The chemicals transmitted form the brain are acting the way sense organs do, making contact with the outside world and offering stimulation from that world. This is why the jump from being sedentary to doing a minimal amount of exercise - such as walking, light gardening, and climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator - is so healthy. Your cells want to be part of the world.

DEEPAK CHOPRA

Super Brain


Wake up. Work out. Look hot.

ANONYMOUS


Violent exercise is like a cold shower: you think it does you good because you feel better when you stop.

ROBERT QUILLEN

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007


Exercise is like a magic potion. It gives you lots of energy throughout the day and helps you sleep better at night. It not only prevents a ton of health problems like stroke and diabetes, but it also keeps you from getting sick in the first place by boosting the immune system. Best of all, it's been shown to improve your sex drive and slow aging. And, oh yeah, it makes you look great in a bathing suit.

MARA SCHIAVOCAMPO

Thinspired


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

JOHN F. KENNEDY

"The Soft America", Sport and Society: an Anthology


Good things come to those who sweat.

ANONYMOUS