Quotes About Exercise

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

I leave you going blue and thinking I'm going to have to dig a grave, and return to find you -- well exercised.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

The best cure for sadness is doing something.

Walking makes the mind work

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning she puts on a pair of black silk drawers and a sweater and makes indelicate gestures on the lawn. That's called Building the Body Beautiful. She's mad about it.

This is such a cozy shop, it makes me want to take up knitting." "You should. It's a very relaxing hobby." I don't know how I kept a straight face, saying things like that. Knitting was a diabolical exercise in frustration.

When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised. To the woman with a skein, everything looks like a fight.

When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

One hot walking trend is "10,000 steps." This idea was first popularized forty years ago by a Japanese researcher named Yoshiro Hatano as a way of promoting the first cheap, reliable pedometer. Today, the goal of walking 10,000 steps a day (about five miles) is supported by groups like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine.

estrogen tells the liver habitually to favor the production of HDL over that of low-density lipoprotein. (Intense exercise can have a similarly promotional effect on the liver's outlay of HDL; the rigors of chronic activity inspire the same anabolic spirit that reproduction does, the same need to scavenge available blood lipids for the sake of creating new cells.)

THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.

For some people, the pain and effort of exercise makes it difficult. But others live off of getting that second wind and the improvements to their body, and so they use that to push through the pain.

Exercise is beneficial, and I strongly recommend it. But a lack of exercise is not the primary reason for weight problems, and exercise can never take the place of a healthful diet.

The road to diabetes is in fact a two-way street.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Ik heb altijd gevonden dat lichaamsbeweging niet alleen de sleutel is tot fysieke gezondheid, maar ook tot gemoedsrust. [...] Lichaamsbeweging verdrijft spanning en spanning is de vijand van sereniteit.

I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.

Trying to second-guess lunatics, drunks, or the Office of Personnel Management was an exercise in frustration. The logic totally eluded her.

who marched his men to the top of the hill and marched them down again.

Should the Egyptians learn to write, Thamus goes on, "it will implant forgetfulness in their souls: they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks." The

I freak out if I go a little too long without being in the gym. For a long time it was all about getting the weight off because I was 240 pounds at my heaviest, and now I'm around 175, so the majority of that weight loss was due to diet and exercise.