Exercise Quotes
228 quotes
"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
"My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is."
"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."
"A stationary bike is a device that epitomizes the phrase “hurry up and wait."
"Love is a bicycle with two pancakes for wheels. You may see love as more of an exercise in hard work, but I see it as more of a breakfast on the go."
"I love sleepwalking, because when else would I get to combine exercise and rest?"
"The chair I want for my office has wheels, so I can put it on my treadmill and get some exercise while I work. Likewise, we can’t let a love like ours just roll on by without trying to work things out."
"Is your Happy Meal full of dancing? Put a box around it and sell it to kids. They could use the exercise."
"You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."Aw, come on, now."Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it."
"I went for a walk this morning because the evening was still asleep. Well technically so was I, but that didn’t stop me from exercising."
"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!"
"I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum"
"Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements."
"Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow."
"The general decay of those manly and spirited exercises, which formerly were practiced in the vicinity of the metropolis has not arisen from any want of inclination in the people, but from the want of places proper for the purpose: such as in times past had been allotted to them are now covered with buildings, or shut up by enclosures, so that, if it were not for skittles, dutch-pins, four-corners, and the like pastimes, they would have no amusements for the exercise of the body; and these amusements are only to be met with in places belonging to common drinking-houses, for which reason their play is seldom productive of much benefit, but more frequently becomes the prelude to drunkenness and debauchery. This evil has been increasing for a long series of years; and honest Stow laments the retrenchments of the grounds appropriated for martial pastimes which had begun to take place in his day."
"Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter."
"You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it."
"A sweet life is a sweaty life."
"Change doesn’t come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat."
"No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer."
"Exercise is life in motion. MOVE to LIVE!"
"No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you’re making the wrong choice."
"Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don’t you weaken it."
"You don’t know all that you can be unless you’ve tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there’s always room for improvement."
"Work out to work up."
"Move to live and live to move!"
"Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape."
"You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to dwell there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy."
"If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly."
Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
"Health, peace of mind, peak performance, and success in any area of life all depend upon doing the right thing at the right time, in harmony with the cycles of the Four Seasons."
Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
"The BEACH Success System is a process to be used over and over again. It’s not a one-time exercise."
"There is toned muscular athletic body in all of us. It is never too late to start taking care of the body you have."
Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
"Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour."
Victoria Moran, Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
"I can only change the world by changing myself."
"Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise."
Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
"You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou."
"You will boost your productivity with active exercise."
"When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes."
"Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger."
"We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age."
"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud."
"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."
"With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation."
"With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war."
"Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed."
"Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories."
"Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness."
"Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body."
"The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.", May/June 2009)]"
"Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had worshipped Princess Di and frequently lamented her passing. "Gone," she would say, shaking her head in disbelief. "Just like that. All that exercise for nothing." Diana-worship was the nearest thing Mum had to a religion."
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