Quotes on Exercise

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.

Author: Joey Adams

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Author: John Adams

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

Author: Kim Alexis

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Author: Hugh Blair

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Author: Henry Carey

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

Author: Cher

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

Author: Tommy Chong

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Author: Guy Clark

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

Author: James Clarke

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.

Author: Sasha Cohen

Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging.

Author: Kenneth Cooper

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Author: Noel Coward

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

Author: Vin Diesel

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.

Author: Mike Ditka

Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.

Author: Maureen Dowd

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Author: Adrian Edmondson

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

Author: Jacques Ellul

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

Author: Joely Fisher

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Author: Henry Ford

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

Author: Trisha Goddard

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

Author: Stone Gossard

We were made to exercise. We feel better.

Author: Bob Greene

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

Author: Lee Haney

When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.

Author: Lee Haney

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

Author: Harlan Howard

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

Author: Thomas Jefferson

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

Author: Bruce Jenner

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Author: Samuel Johnson

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

Author: Ben Kingsley

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

Author: Leo Kottke

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

Author: Jack LaLanne

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

Author: Patrick MacGill

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Author: James Madison

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

Author: James Miller

Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.

Author: Shannon Miller

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Author: Michelle Obama

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.

Author: Al Oerter

They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.

Author: Joe Pantoliano

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Author: Daniela Pestova

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Author: Terry Pratchett

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

Author: Mark Rylance

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Author: Roy Scheider

It's good to always do some sort of exercise.

Author: Ashley Scott

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

Author: George Sheehan

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

Author: Peter Singer

Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

Author: Red Skelton

Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.

Author: David Soul

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Author: Billy Sunday

It's very important to have the right clothing to exercise in. If you throw on an old T-shirt or sweats, it's not inspiring for your workout.

Author: Cheryl Tiegs

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Author: G. Trudeau

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

Author: Alan Turing

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Author: Mark Twain

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

Author: Rob Walton

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

Author: Francis Wright

Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.

Author: Brock Yates

The only bad workout is the one that didn't happen.

Author: Sarah Smith