quotations about exercise
Once you realize that succeeding with exercise isn't a series of shortcuts, but rather a lesson in perseverance, you'll be on your way to making exercise a part of your life.
TIM LENCKI
Fitness One Day at a Time
Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.
ADAM HARGREAVES
Mr. Lazy's Guide to Fitness
For, in the course of common life, a man must either often exercise, or fast, or take physic, or be sick; and the choice seems left to every one as he likes.
WILLIAM TEMPLE
"Of Health and Long Life"
I go to the gym because I think my great personality could use a banging body.
ANONYMOUS
The body when over-labored becomes heavy and jaded; but it is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.
CICERO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
journal, Apr. 20, 1840
Good things come to those who sweat.
ANONYMOUS
Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!
ANONYMOUS
Statistics show what really happens if you exercise daily--you die healthier.
EVEN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
You will never live to my age without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.
PHILIP SIDNEY
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.
CHARLES DUHIGG
The Power of Habit
Violent exercise is like a cold shower: you think it does you good because you feel better when you stop.
ROBERT QUILLEN
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
Labor or exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Jul. 12, 1711
We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
Exercise has a direct brain connection, when you consider what it actually does. What we tend to overlook are the feedback loops that connect the brain to every cell in the body. Therefore when you throw a ball, run on a treadmill, or jog along the shore, billions of cells are "seeing" the outside world. The chemicals transmitted form the brain are acting the way sense organs do, making contact with the outside world and offering stimulation from that world. This is why the jump from being sedentary to doing a minimal amount of exercise - such as walking, light gardening, and climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator - is so healthy. Your cells want to be part of the world.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Super Brain
I always like to tell people having about 12 minutes of exercise is like taking a little bit of Ritalin and a little bit of Prozac just in the right place in a very holistic kind of way, because that's what Ritalin and Prozac do. They increase the levels, at least initially, of serotonin on the one hand and dopamine on the other. And it seems to help many people feel more focused, feel calmer, feel less stressed.
PETER GOODWIN
Exercise and the Mind
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes