Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
Make exercise necessary and fun. Do mostly cardio, but also some weights. Some is better than none. Keep it up as you age. — Daniel Lieberman
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It's better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all. — James Clear
Exercise should be fun, otherwise, you won't be consistent. — Laura Ramirez
Short Great Exercise Quotes
Exercise is like an addiction. Once you're in it, you feel like your body needs it. — Elsa Pataky
The circuit training program along with a healthy clean diet is the way to excellent results. — Lee Haney
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue. — Socrates
I think that making love is the best form of exercise. — Cary Grant
The best activities for your health are pumping and humping. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood. — Andrew Weil
I like to do a lot of cardio. — Ashley Tisdale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. — Norman Vincent Peale
Great Exercise Image Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
Excellent Day Quotes
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. — Nick Saban
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Literally all I do every single hour of every day is obsess over how I can make the best videos possible. — MrBeast
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday! — Pat Riley
You’ve been given another day of life. How will you use it? Will you wait until tomorrow as you’ve done for years or decide today is the day you commit to excellence? — Andrew Tate
Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge. — Vince Lombardi
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism. — William Peter Blatty
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy
Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. — Ted W. Engstrom
You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That’s just how life is. — Pamela Druckerman
Excellent Support Quotes
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. — Thomas J. Peters
Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless. — Vladimir Lenin
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence. — Aristotle
Modern programs must handle Unicode —Python has excellent support for Unicode, and will keep getting better. — Guido van Rossum
I supported Hillary Clinton. She would have made an excellent president. I didn't think she could get elected. I thought it was too soon. — Gloria Steinem
I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom. — Barack Obama
We're happy to see, obviously, the resounding support for Judge [Merric] Garland, an unbelievable - unbelievably strong, unquestioned excellence as a judge for the last 18 years on the second highest court in the land and somebody who's dedicated his life to the law. — Denis McDonough
I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips. — Jessicka
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness. — John Adams
Good Exercise Quotes
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. — John Stuart Mill
Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. — Josh Billings
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being — Plato
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. — Konrad Lorenz
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl
Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you. — Jack LaLanne
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them. — Jonas Salk
Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind. — Sakyong Mipham
Manage distress tolerance and keep the window of well-being wide through exercise, sound sleep, good nutrition, time with family, and deep social connections. — Peter Attia
Good Workout Quotes
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
I aim for a daily target of music and a weekly quota of comedy, workouts, and other feel-good activities. — Mo Gawdat
Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. — James Clear
Good thing I didn’t accomplish all my goals yet because then what would I do tomorrow? — Alexi Pappas
I like to fight on the ground. I’m learning every day. I think I’m good. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
When I go out with a woman, my primary goal is for her to have a good time – that’s it. — Corey Wayne
Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be. — Jocko Willink
I was good. I probably could have gone to the NFL. I just hated practice. — Kawhi Leonard
You can be a woman who wants to look good and still stand up for the equality of women. — Meghan Markle
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. — James Lafferty
Morning Exercise Quotes
Never give up what you want most for what you want today. — Neal A. Maxwell
The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do. — Bill Phillips
Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases. — Ellen G. White
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play. — Herb Alpert
If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it. — John Ratey
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve. — Roger Scruton
We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us
up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day. — Dale Carnegie
It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and I'm not just thinking about them ...... I'm feeling the feelings of gratitude — James Arthur Ray
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all. — Eva Green
I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch. — Ana Ortiz
Daily Exercise Quotes
The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise. — Billy Graham
Lift something heavy most every day, even if it’s just your weary body up to the pullup bar a few times. — Mark Sisson
Recognizing that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise daily when I need the urge to act for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily. — Bruce Lee
You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you. — Justina Chen
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. — Grantland Rice
Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home. — Joseph Pilates
The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week. — Warren E. Burger
In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. — Edward Bernays
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken
Stay in shape. And remember, daily exercise is a must. Plan for it, and do it. The rewards will be well worth it. — Jack LaLanne
Walking Exercise Quotes
There is no exercise that can take the place of walking. by it the circulation of the blood is greatly improved. Walking, in all cases where it is possible, is the best remedy for the diseased bodies, because in this, all of the organs of the body are brought into use. — Ellen G. White
Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative. — Dean Ornish
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. — Helen Keller
The best-researched and beneficial exercise for health is not nearly as taxing as you'd expect - all you need to do is walk more! — Tommy Wood
I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory! — Sasha Azevedo
We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us. — Socrates
I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags. — Guy Clark
if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater. — George Muller
Exercise Stretch Quotes
My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility. — Samantha Stosur
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching. — Jane Fonda
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. — Jason Statham
I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body. — Anna Olson
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. — Sir Richard Steele
My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs. — Cesar Millan
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. — Jackson Browne
I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles. — Jessica Lange
I do 45 minutes a day of stretching and abdominals and I lift light weights of half a kilo. Otherwise, if you strain your muscles, then you have to be quiet and stay without any exercise for a long time. I do heavier weights gradually. I'm going to become Superwoman with oil on my muscles! — Sophia Loren
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck. — Unknown
Exercise Health Quotes
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
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
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon. — Ellen DeGeneres
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
Exercise is the new probiotic. Aerobic exercise may be one of the most effective ways to promote gut health and help heal intestinal issues. Aerobic exercise increases butyrate-producing gut bacteria independent of diet. This reduces inflammation — Rhonda Patrick
No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden. — Dan Buettner
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. — Lord Chesterfield
It's insane how much we focus on diet/exercise when what we should be focused on is sleep. We spend 33% of our time on earth sleeping. Make airway health your #1 priority. The other 66% of your life depends on it. — Mark Burhenne
We've always known that our bodies are capable of healing themselves under the right conditions: Diet and exercise improve our health. But there are also ancient genetic survival pathways in every living thing. — David Sinclair
A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind. — Grace Lee Boggs
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies. — Mencius
How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise. — Smith Wigglesworth
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. — Oprah Winfrey
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. — Martin Seligman
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. — John Mott
I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession. — Woodrow Wilson
Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise. — Shahzia Sikander
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. — William O. Douglas
If feeling anxious about anything Dr Bachs night time rescue remedy is great. Sometimes a bath before bed helps. Burning Lavender or Clary Sage in the room before retiring. Try not to work on my computer very late and then bed straight after. Getting enough exercise definitely helps sleep. — Rachel Ryan
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. — Jonathan Edwards
You must realize one thing. In every little village in the world there are great potential champions who only need motivation, development and good exercise evaluation. — Arthur Lydiard
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil. — Mencius
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision. — Jeff Olson
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance — Joseph Addison
One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you. — Sheryl Crow
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. — Bertrand Russell
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. — George Henry Lewes
We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party. — Jim C. Walton
Liberty in the United States will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate a virtually unlimited exercise of presidential power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents. — Robert Higgs
In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation. — Simon Schama
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling over small things, we become jaded long before we have even begun to enjoy. When feelings are in balance they sweeten long days and great distances with gratitude and hope. — Joan D. Chittister
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
Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood! — Jenna Ushkowitz
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it. — John Henry Newman
My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind. — George Washington
Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. — Cher
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. — I Ching
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. — Kate Millet
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them. — Frederick Douglass
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority... — Lord Acton
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. — Kate Millett
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. — Horace
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? — Georg C. Lichtenberg
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. — Lewis Carroll
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested. — Edmund Barton
You have to have great passion, because to sing operatic music requires lots of work. I study for at least two hours every day. The voice is like an instrument and requires constant exercise. — Andrea Bocelli
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. — Frank Herbert
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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