Physical Exercise Quotes

• If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

  Hippocrates

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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• Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 30, 2016

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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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• 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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• If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fitness, Cancer, Exercise

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

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• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Sleep, Exercise

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

  Mark Twain

  Fitness, Humorous, Health

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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

  Plato

  Fitness, Workout, Exercise

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  Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fitness, Exercise, Labor

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• Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

  Gene Tunney

  Fitness, Heart, Exercise

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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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• 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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• 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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• My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

  Phyllis Diller

  Fitness, Health, Exercise

  "New Again: Janeane Garofalo". Interview with Phyllis Diller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2015.

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• 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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• 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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