Exercise Health Quotes

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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• My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

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

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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• Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it.

  Elsa Pataky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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

  Denise Austin

  Fitness, Exercise, Vices

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Dec 29, 2011

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

  Joseph Pilates

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

  "Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology".

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• 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

  Wise, Fitness, Work

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

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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

  Julius Erving

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• 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

  Fitness, Exercise, Bad Ass

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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  Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.112, McGraw Hill Professional

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

  William Osler

  Exercise, Air, Should Have

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 3

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• 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

  Change, Success, Fitness

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Fitness, Running, Exercise

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• 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

  Fitness, Spiritual, Exercise

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• 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

  Workout, Health, Exercise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

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• 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

  Fitness, Exercise, Discipline

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.50

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

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Food

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Health

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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