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Quotes About Exercise

Everywhere else in the day, my brain is in a thousand different places, but when I'm working out, I can only focus on the pain.
~ Nina Agdal
The Creator is that which activates a potentially unlimited set of modes in which finite agency is exercised, but is also simply what eternally is.
~ Rowan Williams
Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.
~ Roy Scheider
Studies have found that old-fashioned lie-on-the-floor static stretching reduces your ability to produce power,
~ Roy Wallack
Bottom line: The deadlift supercharges your lunges. And the lunges supercharge your cycling.
~ Roy Wallack
I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised.
~ Rue McClanahan
Dumbbells are pretty easy to come by, but since many of them are married, I suggest lifting weights. Youth
~ Rue McClanahan
I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.
~ Russell Edward Brand
Uno de los dones de Dios para nosotros es el ejercicio físico que libera endorfinas y tranquiliza las emociones, calma los sufrimientos y mejora nuestro estado de ánimo.
~ Ruth Haley Barton
Muscle makes me feel so much healthier than fat.
~ Ryan Pack
Fear remained, a lurking thing, but movement and action and the exercise of the mind on the daily problems of existence pushed it into the background.
~ SÅ'awomir Rawicz
Excluding vacations, that's 144 gym classes a year, which comes to a lifetime total of 1,584; multiply that by forty minutes a class and it comes to 1,056 hours of nonstop harassment, or forty-four days of round-the-clock terror. POWs have died for less.
~ Marc Acito
She resolved every day to: 1. Do something for someone else. 2. Do something for myself 3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing. 4. Do a physical exercise 5. Do a mental exercise 6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings
~ Marci Shimoff
You wouldn't expect your car to run well if you never shut it off or if you didn't fuel it. Yet we often neglect our bodies in similar ways and expect them to keep going like the Energizer Bunny. To access our natural joy and maintain balance in our lives, we need to energize our bodies through proper rest, breathing, and exercise.
~ Marci Shimoff
But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and above all things is careful to preserve his own, in the continual habit and exercise both of reason and sociableness: and thereby doth co-operate with him, of whose nature he doth also participate; God.
~ Marcus Aurelius
We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food and drink to recruit, but not to overload, our strength. Nor is it the body alone that must be supported, but the intellect and soul much more.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
This shows how a man who practices exercise and self-control can preserve some of his original vigor even when he grows old.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you worked out enough, maybe the man would too. Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude.
~ Margaret Atwood
otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise. If you didn't work it out it was because one of you had the wrong attitude. Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.
~ Margaret Atwood
I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.
~ Margaret Atwood
I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.
~ Margaret Atwood
Maybe you would be able to work it out together, as if the two of you were a puzzle that could be solved; otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by exercise.
~ Margaret Atwood