Top 100 Fitness Exercise Quotes
#1. True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#3. I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
Peggy Fleming
#4. Make time daily to nurture your physical, mental and emotional health.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#5. Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
George A. Sheehan
#6. Exercise will never be my lover. Or even my friend. For me, a workout is more like an annoying coworker I have to see a few times a week.
Alissa Nutting
#7. If you keep on eating unhealthy food than no matter how many weight loss tips you follow, you are likely to retain weight and become obese. If only you start eating healthy food, you will be pleasantly surprised how easy it is to lose weight.
Subodh Gupta
#8. Never, ever exercise in front of a TV or while reading. You lose 50 percent of the benefit of the exercise by not hearing and feeling your heart rate, your sweat and the pain levels that need to be encountered in fitness training.
Kevin R. Stone
#9. Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise.
Paula Abdul
#10. Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don't exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray 'Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young again.'
Jack LaLanne
#11. Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals!
Gwen Ro
#12. Like most fat people who've been lectured about diet and exercise since childhood, I actually know an inordinate amount about nutrition and fitness.
Lindy West
#13. Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
James Freeman Clarke
#14. Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?" I questioned. "That would be almost like being brain dead...
Vann Chow
#16. For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.
Daniela Pestova
#17. A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#18. I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
Erin Gray
#19. Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself.
Steve Allen
#20. With my busy schedule, it's impossible to have a set fitness routine. So instead I like to try and incorporate exercise into my daily life whenever I can - which requires some creativity.
Heidi Klum
#22. If THINKING about exercising, eating healthy and losing weight burned calories, I'd be a SUPERMODEL!
Tanya Masse
#23. I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
#24. 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.
Sasha Cohen
#26. Change doesn't come in nickels and dimes. It comes in dedication and sweat.
Toni Sorenson
#27. 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
#30. Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
Thomas Jefferson
#31. When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.
Willie Nelson
#33. [On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.
Dolly Parton
#34. You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne
#36. Sometimes just getting up and moving is victory enough.
Toni Sorenson
#37. Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of sleep you get each night. Refer back to your records to see where things went right or went wrong.
Robert Cheeke
#38. 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.
Cheryl Tiegs
#39. 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.
Stone Gossard
#40. I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.
Stephen L. Richards
#41. Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it.
Toni Sorenson
#42. Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson
#43. Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
Joseph Pilates
#44. Exercise like a beginner if you ARE a beginner.
Dana Gore
#45. Physical fitness contributes to all other aspects of personal development and makes for rich and radiant living
Hugh B. Brown
#46. Getting fit is all about mind over matter. I don't mind, so it doesn't matter.
Adam Hargreaves
#47. Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals.
Robert Cheeke
#48. The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years.
Mark Dilworth
#49. Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
Viggo Mortensen
#50. Warning: Before beginning an program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health.
Frank Forencich
#52. The Warrior's Diet Three Rules of Eating:
Rule #1: Always start with subtle-tasting foods and move to the more
aggressive foods.
Rule #2: Include as many tastes, textures, colors, and aromas as possible in your main meal.
Rule #3: Stop eating when you feel much more thirsty than hungry.
Ori Hofmekler
#53. If you are exercising to that point it is not doing you any good in terms of fitness, as it is all lactic acid and you can get injured but I think coaches were seeing how far you'd go for the team.
Colin Kazim-Richards
#54. Recent studies show that people who exercise their minds with stimulating activities throughout their entire lives have a 35-40 percent less chance of developing symptoms of dementia.
Mike Rabe
#55. Fitness is never really about what you lose; it's about all that you gain.
Toni Sorenson
#56. If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Vinoba Bhave
#57. Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.
Toni Sorenson
#58. Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.
Munia Khan
#59. No matter your reason, if you sacrifice your health, you're making the wrong choice.
Toni Sorenson
#61. 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
#63. Fitness and daily exercise are correlated with success in business and in life.3
Scott Adams
#64. A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind.
Pawan Mishra
#65. The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Erin Gray
#67. But if sedentary behavior makes us fat and physical activity prevents it, shouldn't the "exercise explosion" and the "new fitness revolution" have launched and epidemic of leanness rather than coinciding with an epidemic of obesity?
Gary Taubes
#68. It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
Joely Fisher
#69. Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Lee Haney
#73. To enjoy the glow of good health, you must exercise.
Gene Tunney
#74. No one knows your body like you do. Listen to it. It will tell you what to eat, when to drink, how to sleep and which exercises you need to do. Let your own body be your most trusted personal trainer.
Toni Sorenson
#75. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
Thomas Jefferson
#76. Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.
Jack LaLanne
#79. In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
Grete Waitz
#80. 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.
Brock Yates
#81. The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple
#82. Think of the health risks if you don't exercise. The consequences are real.
Mike Rabe
#83. The only real insurance you have against disease is a healthy body. Invest wisely, generously and often in that policy.
Toni Sorenson
#84. Yoga is a lifestyle and not just a mere kind of exercise to stay fit and health. It is a science which unfolds the endless potentials of our mind and soul.
Anamika Mishra
#85. Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
James Thomson
#86. 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
#87. Balance your body for better results. A balanced body improves electrical communication to muscles and gets you stronger, faster.
Josh Bezoni
#88. I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
Kim Alexis
#89. Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood.
Auliq Ice
#90. You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
#91. Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
Charles M. Schulz
#93. I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino.
Bonnie Langford
#94. Things that we do every day make up who we are and the results we have in our life. Bank accounts collect from constant deposits and good health is achieved or maintained from what we put into our bodies daily.
Malti Bhojwani
#95. Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney
#96. My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
J. A. Jance
#97. Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.
Gordon Strachan
#98. I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.
Sarah Parish
#99. In a nutshell: Stress is stress - no matter whether it's from exercise or from lifestyle - and the more stress you're placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you'll be able to place on yourself from exercise.
Ben Greenfield
#100. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
Hugh Blair
