quotations about exercise
I go to the gym because I think my great personality could use a banging body.
ANONYMOUS
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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
Let exercise alternate with rest.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771
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
The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.
CHALENE JOHNSON
Push
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
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
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
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
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
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
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.
JUSTINA CHEN
North of Beautiful
Exercise raises body temperature and generates other forms of stress on cells throughout the body, causing them to increase their manufacture of certain heat shock proteins. Preliminary research suggests that these HSPs might contribute to the health benefits of exercise by mitigating damage inside cells and by alerting the immune system to boost overall immune responses.
PRAMOD K. SRIVASTAVA
Scientific American, Jul. 2008
I get most of my exercise these days from shaking my head in disbelief.
ANONYMOUS
The best exercise is the one you enjoy most.
SALLY LYOBEBE
Health and Exercise is Wealth with Recipes
Exercise is quite majestic when seen from a distance.
BAUVARD
The Prince of Plungers