EXERCISE QUOTES II
quotations about exercise
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No pain, no gain. Shut up and train.
ANONYMOUS
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He who has a weak constitution becomes stronger by manual exercise than a robust man without it.
XENOPHON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The best cares or provisions for life and health, that are left us, consist in the discreet and temperate government of diet and exercise.
WILLIAM TEMPLE
"Of Health and Long Life"
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation.
JACK LALANNE
attributed, Quotes
Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.
W.C. FIELDS
The Temperence Lecture
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, The Spectator, Jul. 12, 1711
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
speech, Apr. 10, 1899
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
SOCRATES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Exercise is like a magic potion. It gives you lots of energy throughout the day and helps you sleep better at night. It not only prevents a ton of health problems like stroke and diabetes, but it also keeps you from getting sick in the first place by boosting the immune system. Best of all, it's been shown to improve your sex drive and slow aging. And, oh yeah, it makes you look great in a bathing suit.
MARA SCHIAVOCAMPO
Thinspired
Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
"The Soft America", Sport and Society: an Anthology
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Vanity Fair, Oct. 2007
I get my exercise running to the funerals of my friends who exercise.
BARRY GRAY
New York Magazine, May 19, 1980
Wake up. Work out. Look hot.
ANONYMOUS
Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
ANDREW SOLOMON
The Noonday Demon
I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics". I guess gym instructors got together and said, "If we're going to charge ten dollars an hour, we can't call it 'jumping up and down'."
RITA RUDNER
Naked Beneath My Clothes
I need a stranger to scream hurtful things at me while I exercise! Because she cares!
LESLEY KINZEL
Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body
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"
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
If you have time for Facebook, you have time to exercise.
ANONYMOUS
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785