Exercise And Health Quotes:

Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind.

- John Lubbock

topic: Exercise, Brain, Mind, Exercise And Health

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Soundness, Inspirational Body

To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.

- Gene Tunney

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Good Health, Good Exercise, Physical Exercise

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

- Plato

topic: Humans, Healthy Living, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness, Methodical

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Healthy Living, Healthy Habits

Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.

- Joseph Pilates

source: "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

topic: Fitness, Thinking, Wishful Thinking, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Football, Softball Player

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

- Joey Adams

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Bad Ass, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Order, Fitness Motivational, Exercise And Health

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Walks, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Walking Fast

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Fitness, Health, Exercise, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness

Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Workout, Exercise, Thinking, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Training

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

- Jill Johnson

topic: Fitness, Healthy, Lifestyle, Lethargy, Inspirational Health And Fitness

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

- Hippocrates

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Workout, Nourishment, Motivational Exercise

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

- Cher

topic: Funny, Fitness, Bottles, Physical Fitness, Exercise And Fitness

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

- William Osler

source: Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 3

topic: Exercise, Air, Should Have, Exercise And Health, Exercise Health

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

- G. M. Trevelyan

source: G.M. Trevelyan (1949). “CLIO A MUSE AND OTHER ESSAYS”

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Inspirational Mountain Climbing, Climbing To The Top

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

- Norman Mailer

topic: Fitness, Workout, Responsibility, Physical Fitness, Physical Exercise

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Fitness, Martial Arts Inspirational, Speed Limits

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Pushing, Physical Fitness, Physical Exercise

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork, Inspirational Football, Best Coaches

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

- John Wooden

source: "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Inspiration And Motivation

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Ideas, Physical Fitness, Good Exercise

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Reading, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Physical Fitness

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

- Sam Snead

topic: Golf, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running, Inspirational Runner, Inspirational Track

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.

- Denise Austin

source: FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Vices, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Training

The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

- Kenneth H. Cooper

source: Interview with Robert Reinhold:, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 1987.

topic: Health, Exercise, Quality, Quality Of Life, Living Healthy

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Fitness, Eye, Shoes, Walking Shoes, Old Shoes

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

- Bill Phillips

topic: Yoga, Meditation, Matter, Positive Change, Power To Change

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Flower, Inspirational Health, Inspirational Health And Fitness

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

- Paul Dudley White

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Health, Healthy Habits, Spiritual Health

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Fitness, Food, Health, Physical Fitness, Health And Fitness

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Trying, Physical Fitness, Fluff

Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Spiritual, Fitness, Exercise, Arthritis, Health And Fitness

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.

- Rita Rudner

topic: Fitness, Health, Exercise, Instructors, Physical Fitness

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

- John Dryden

source: Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

topic: Wise, Fitness, Work, Physical Fitness, Draught

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Motivational, Running, Fitness, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

- Julius Erving

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Body, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Sports Spirit

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Fitness, Dirty, Health, Yummy, Physical Fitness

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Fitness, Exercise, Discipline, Physical Fitness, Exercise And Fitness

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.

- Tony Robbins

source: FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011

topic: Change, Success, Fitness, Inspirational Health And Fitness, Strength Training

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Exercise, Fitness Motivational, Body, Motivational Health, Exercise And Health

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, I Love Food