Exercise Quotes - Page 4

• Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

  Gene Tunney

  Fitness, Heart, Should

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• All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.

  Tony Robbins

  Decision, Clarifying, Values

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• If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Reality, God's Plan, Looks

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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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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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• I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

  Neil Armstrong

  Running, Believe, Numbers

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• And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

  Julie Bishop

  Motivational, Fitness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Love, Heart, Mind

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• Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Motivational, Fitness, Work

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• I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

  Peggy Fleming

  Sports, Fitness, Running

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• To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…”, p.1569, e-artnow

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

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Parenting, Practice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

  Hugh Blair

  Fitness, Health, Improvement

  Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247

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• Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

  Bob Filner

  Home, Parenting, Obesity Epidemic

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• 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

  Business, Occupation, Foresight

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• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Art, Practice, Medicine

  Medical Observations Dedicatory Epistle

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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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• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  Major Owens

  Leadership, Constant, Ifs

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• When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Government, Political, Politics

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• A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.

  Sasha Cohen

  Sports, Fitness, Stay Strong

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• The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

  Jack LaLanne

  Way, Fats, Eating Less

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• As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

  Bill Toomey

  Tools, Optimum, Diets

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• Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

  Harold Brodkey

  Health, Athlete, Soul

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• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Equality, Play

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