Exercise Quotes

Fitness determines productivity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the exercise explosion and the new fitness revolution have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?

~ Gary Taubes

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

~ Elizabeth Berg

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

~ Henry David Thoreau

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

~ Rebecca Solnit

The key to the Hercules Method is to focus your mind, body and spirit towards one goal. By bringing all three into alignment, the physical enthusiast can bring all of them under conscious control. Such control is the key to change.

~ Justin Jordan

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

~ Jeannette Walls

There was no girls' cross-country team at our high school, since cross-country courses were two or three miles long, and, at that distance, a girl's uterus could fall out.

~ Gretchen Reynolds

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

There is no medicine or other intervention that appears to be nearly as effective as exercise in maintaining or even bumping up a person's cognitive abilities.

~ Gretchen Reynolds

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

~ T.f. Hodge

Move your body.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make yourself a slave to good habits

~ Dan John

I peer through the spectral, polluted, nicotine-sodden windows of my sock at these old lollopers in their kiddie gear. Go home, I say. Go home, lie down, and eat lots of potatoes. I had three handjobs yesterday. None was easy. Sometimes you really have to buckle down to it, as you do with all forms of exercise. It's simply a question of willpower. Anyone who's got the balls to stand there and tell me that a handjob isn't exercise just doesn't know what he's talking about. I almost had a heart-attack during number three. I take all kinds of other exercise too. I walk up and down the stairs. I climb into cabs and restaurant booths. I hike to the Butcher's Arms and the London Apprentice. I cough a lot. I throw up pretty frequently, which really takes it out of you. I sneeze, and hit the tub and the can. I get in and out of bed, often several times a day.

~ Martin Amis

I learned to run toward the pain, not away from it. There is nothing like that feeling: pushing, your legs like two powerhouses, your cadence a seemingly effortless rhythm in sync with your mind, every emotional pain you ever experienced washed away by your power to endure. A personal thought I often have after a great run: The pain of running relieves the pain of living.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Keep it small. Keep it simple. Give it time. An exercise program such as yoga is a slow process. It is slow by design. But, in order to secure the gains and add to them, you have to keep it up. And guess what, the more you do it, the more your desire to do it grows. It is the same with building core spiritual muscles. You may have a period of intense growth—perhaps some adversity that drives you to your knees and calls forth the blessings of heaven. But to secure those gains, we must continue to invite the Holy Ghost into our lives—daily.

~ Virginia H. Pearce

Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.

~ Malti Bhojwani

The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga.

~ Ross Douthat

Whoever walks daily shall know the worth of walking.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Balance your body for better results. A balanced body improves electrical communication to muscles and gets you stronger, faster.

~ Josh Bezoni

As much as I enjoyed yoga courses, it was hard to make time for them. Generally speaking, my work arrangements were flexible, so it was mostly a psychological problem: it was hard to convince myself it was acceptable to go twist my body into knots for two hours when there was work to be done.

~ Josh Kaufman

The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.

~ James F. Clapp Iii

I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.

~ Jasper Fforde

Running is like music. It requires rhythm and focus. It requires dedication. It requires a dogged ability to shut out everything else. The herd is strung out below me, keeping time with the thump and slap of their cross-trainers. I hold the sound in my head and subtract cars, trucks, motorcycles, voices until it’s nothing but a song.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

I used to play golf, but found it did not give me vitality because it's a slothful game...Nine holes of golf will take you one and a half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.-Hard truths to keep Singapore going (2011)

~ Lky On Life

He who makes fun of a short and fat man’s weight is much less cruel than he who makes fun of his height.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I’d gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

~ Jim Butcher

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

~ Henry R. Luce

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

~ Aristophanes

Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.

~ Ellen G. White

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

~ John Henry Newman

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'

~ Kevin Bacon

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

~ Heidi Klum

My exercise regime is a mix of gymming, marital arts, sports, etc.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.

~ Buzz Aldrin

People need to get out and do some more exercise, especially children who are stuck inside with computers.

~ Katie Taylor

I'm like everybody: I gain the Christmas 10 or so, and then I try to exercise more and dial it back.

~ Trisha Yearwood