Great Exercise Quotes

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1750). “Cato Major: Or, A Treatise on Old Age”, p.81

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

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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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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• 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

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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

  Cher

  Funny, Fitness, Health

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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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• I play drums, and I'd recommend it to anyone, except maybe your neighbors. It's great exercise - physical, mental, emotional, and social. It takes deep concentration but also activates concentration. If you're doing it right, it's always just a little harder than what you can actually pull off.

  Greg Saunier

  Exercise, Emotional, Play

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• One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

  Sheryl Crow

  Exercise, Color, Rainbow

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• Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

  Rose McGowan

  Fun, Fighting, Exercise

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• I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

  Kerry Bishe

  Fall, Exercise, Thinking

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• I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

  Patrice Leconte

  Exercise, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Boxing is a great exercise ... as long as you can yell "cut" whenever you want to.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Funny, Cutting, Exercise

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