Exercise Quotes

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk."
-Oscar Wilde

"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!"
-Oprah Winfrey

"Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."
-George Sheehan

"I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises."
-Buzz Aldrin

"Dig where the gold is…unless you just need some exercise."
-John M. Capozzi

"Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men."
-Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Mach-S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed."
-Jef Mallett

"I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty."
-T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace

"Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you."
-Aaron Douglas Trimble

"Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage."
-Evan Esar

"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness."
-Joseph Addison

"I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy."
-Anna Quindlen

"Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly."
-James Rippe

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."
-Mark Twain

"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best."
-Thomas Jefferson

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
-Oscar Wilde

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it."
-Henry Ford

"People must exercise caution and drive carefully."
-Wayne Minnaar

"Attracting and retaining companies to any community is an extremely competitive exercise."
-Lynda Weatherman

"We're all sitting around getting fat. Exercise is boring, so why not do what we like?"
-Sparkle Thomas

"We're getting to exercise what we have learned in a new area and this will make us better prepared if an event happens here."
-Carl Lindgren

"It wasn't going anywhere, and we had to exercise our options."
-Brian Phipps

"We need to encourage more people to exercise."
-Deanna Krautner

"You've probably heard that exercise helps diminish stress."
-Pamela Edwards

"Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health."
-James Thomson

"I don't exercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor."
-Joan Rivers

"We wouldn't be able to (make an) offer based on this exercise. This is very preliminary."
-Matt Burdick