Exercise quotes

Discover the power of exercise with our collection of inspiring quotes. Motivate yourself to move, sweat, and achieve your fitness goals with words that uplift and inspire. Dive into a world of physical and mental strength through our exercise quotes.

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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 have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

- Taylor Dayne

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

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

- Barbra Streisand

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

- Charles Hodge

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

- Havelock Ellis

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

- Bertrand Russell

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

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

- Henry Charles Carey

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

- Robert Dale Owen

The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

- Dick Thornburgh

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

- Ron Davies

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

- Felix Frankfurter

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

- Mary Kay Ash

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

- W. Somerset Maugham

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

- Charles Hodge

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

- Titus Livius

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

- Samuel Beckett

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

- Aleister Crowley

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

- Lee Haney

With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

- Lisa Marie Presley

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

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

- Bill Toomey

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

- Carol Bellamy

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

- Ron White

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

- Max de Pree

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

- Aristophanes

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

- Mariel Hemingway

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

- John Keegan