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Quotes About Exercise

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Running is not only a great way to exercise but also one of the best forms of mind-body therapies there is.
~ Unknown
The number of kids affected by obesity has tripled since 1980, and this can be traced in large part to lack of exercise and a healthy diet.
~ Virginia Foxx
Rape is a well-defined political strategy: the bare bones of capitalism, it is the crude and blunt representation of the exercise of power. It designates a ruler, and organizes the rules of the game to allow him to wield his power without restraint.
~ Virginie Despentes
The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.
~ Vivian Gornick
In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Everyone should be his own physician. We ought to assist and not force nature. Eat with moderation what agrees with your constitution. Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can produce digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep. What will alleviate incurable ills? Patience.
~ Voltaire
What's wrong with that? You're getting exercise in your sleep. We're up to five sets of fifty push-ups, three hundred sit-ups, and a run every night.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it.
~ Joel Parkinson
For me, exercise is more mental than physical. I crave it for my sanity. Not just the endorphins, but my energy, confidence, and relaxation are all motivated by it.
~ Jonathan Keltz
The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.
~ Jamie Redknapp
I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.
~ Gigi Hadid
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~ Plato
Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
~ Plato
Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Very true. Then
~ Plato
there are some, both at present and of old, who recognized that Spartanizing is much more a love of wisdom than a love of physical exercise, knowing that the ability to utter such remarks belong to a a perfectly educated man.
~ Plato
We are very much in need now of Christian pioneers. This means a people who are zealous to grow and to exercise dominion in Christ.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve
~ Rachel Caine
He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE: SOME MOTIVATIONREQUIRED.
~ Rachel Caine
You okay?" Eve asked her. Claire nodded, still gasping. "Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigger than Pilates.
~ Rachel Caine
Every day he gave thanks for his legs, and proved his gratitude by using them.
~ Dean Koontz
walking nowhere on a treadmill seemed rather pointless
~ Debbie Macomber