Exercise Health Quotes - Page 2

• Any workout which does not involve a certain minimum of danger or responsibility does not improve the body - it just wears it out.

  Norman Mailer

  Fitness, Workout, Health

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Health, Exercise, Quality

  Interview with Robert Reinhold:, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 1987.

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Fitness, Dirty, Food

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

  Sam Snead

  Running, Golf, Track

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• The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

  Rita Rudner

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

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• Health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness

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

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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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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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• Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  N.Y. Times, 17 Jan. 1985

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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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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

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

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• 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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• 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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• Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.

  Jill Johnson

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Running, Fitness

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• A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

  A. A. Milne

  Fitness, Exercise, Trying

  A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.106, Egmont UK

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• I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Fitness, Food, Health

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• Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Fitness, Exercise, Walks

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.18, University of Virginia Press

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

  Neil Armstrong

  Fitness, Running, Believe

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