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Quotes About Exercise

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.
~ James E. Starrs, unverified
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
~ Danish Proverb
Sitting is the new smoking.
~ Health catchphrase, c.2009
Sitting kills, moving heals.
~ Joan Vernikos, c.2011
Morning walks — rich man walks to digest food a poor to earn.
~ Kiran Bantawa, "Morning Walks"
By chase our long-lived fathers earn'd their food, Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend: God never made his work for man to mend.
~ John Dryden
He suggested that all lieutenants, captains, and inspectors be fit to walk ten miles a day on three consecutive days, or in some cases that they ride thirty miles a day for the same period. Fourteen years later, as Mayor La Guardia went on the radio to read "Dick Tracy" to "the kiddies" during a newspaper strike, he offered an aside to Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine, wondering why Dick Tracy was slim and trim and so many New York police detectives were fat.
~ H. Paul Jeffers
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
~ H. S. Leigh
Health is the art of balance. Good mental and physical health require balance. Balance of diet, exercise, sleep, and stress. Imbalance creates stress on the body and mind. Poor health and disease are states of imbalance. Relaxation restores balance. Relaxation is the ideal state for good health. Relaxation is the ideal state for healing. Meditation is the art of consciously relaxing body and mind.
~ H.W. Mann
When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
Jihad – struggle; in a narrow sense, understood to mean "war" or military exercise or engagement. "Jihad al–Akbar, "the great struggle" refers to the highest level of self-discipline that brings one closest to the Almighty as a result of overcoming one's ego.
~ Hajjah Amina Adil
Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics is not a science like physics or chemistry, but a political exercise... If the boundaries of what you are studying cannot be scientifically determined, what you are doing is not a science.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Recognizing that the boundaries of the market are ambiguous and cannot be determined in an objective way lets us realize that economics is not a science like physics or chemistry, but a political exercise. Free-market economists may want you to believe that the correct boundaries of the market can be scientifically determined, but this is incorrect. If the boundaries of what you are studying cannot be scientifically determined, what you are doing is not a science.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
~ Hank Aaron
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play .
~ Hank Aaron
You can't be fat and fast, too so lift, run, diet and work.
~ Hank Stram
I'm not a big sports fan.
~ Harlan Coben
Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you need to start taking care of it. This involves a combination of proper diet, exercise, and recreation.
~ Harold J. Sala
Someday science will supply all of us with washboard abs.
~ Harold Jaffe
Golf is not just an exercise; it's an adventure, a romance... a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined.
~ Harold Segall
But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
~ Harriet Martineau
Golf is good, it means I get some fresh air and exercise, take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.
~ Harry Connick Jr.
Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.
~ Harry Leon Wilson
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
~ Harry S Truman