#Exercise Quotes

“Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.”

“Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.”

“I've been an exercise maniac most of my adult life, running marathons and triathlons, doing that as a regular way of life. I ran eight miles a day, every day for 29 years.”

“I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.”

“There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.”

“You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.”

“If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.”

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.”

“You know you've got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.”

“Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.”

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”

“Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.”

“The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.”

“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.”

“Of all exercises, walking is the best.”

“It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family!”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.”

“Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.”

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”

“Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong.”

“Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.”

“Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.”

“Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”

“Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.”

“I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.”

“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.”

“Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.”

“I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.”

“I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.”

“I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have been doing the leg lifts.”

“I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.”

“The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.”

“I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.”

“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”

“My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.”

“I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.”

“Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.”

“I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.”

“I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights”

“Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.”

“I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.”

“In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.”

“Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.”

“Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.”

“I don't exercise.”

“I work out every morning. Only half an hour. I get on the treadmill. That's it. Every morning, I don't care what time. It gets your blood flowing. It gets your adrenaline flowing. I believe in eating well. It's not fanatical. Eat good food. Make sure you've got good vegetables.”

“Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.”

“When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.”