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Quotes About Exercise

Note that training your body to use fat more efficiently and spare glycogen happens only when exercising at moderate intensity, not when riding harder.
~ John Hughes
The nurses at River Bend reported that Nana sometimes shouted at the golfers. "If you're doing this for exercise, just keep walking—don't keep stopping!" my grandmother yelled at them. It
~ John Irving
Exercise was the rent the body charged for granting the mind space.
~ John Jackson Miller
The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. –
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.
~ Plutarch
Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.
~ Alanis Morissette
Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.
~ Regina Taylor
If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.
~ Kelly Ripa
For me writing isn't a mental exercise, it's barely even a literary exercise, it feels like a spiritual experience.
~ Ottessa Moshfegh
Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.
~ George Whitefield
We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
~ William Gurnall
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
~ Joseph Glanvill
Instead of being depressed about your weight why dont you take that time to do something about it.
~ Unknown
Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!
~ Unknown
Most people quit exercising early when they don't see results. The reason is: they treat working out like its a LUXURY thing instead of a LIFESTYLE. They only exercise when they feel like it not when they need to. Luxury is temporary, Lifestyle is everlasting.
~ Unknown
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~ Major Owens
I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
~ Mandy Patinkin
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
In 9- to 16-year-olds, the timing of sleep, not just sleep duration, makes a big difference. Even when the sleep duration is the same, those children who went to bed later did less vigorous exercise each day and had more periods of physical inactivity than children with an earlier bedtime.
~ Unknown
when we try to extract generality from our sorrow so as to write about it we are a little consoled, perhaps for another reason than those I have hitherto given, which is, that thinking in a general way, writing is a sanitary and indispensable function for the writer and gives him satisfaction in the same way that exercise, sweating and baths do a physical man.
~ Marcel Proust
Winston Churchill lived into his nineties and said the only exercise he ever got was serving as a pallbearer for his friends who died while they were exercising.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~ John Owen