Best Exercise Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

God never made his work for man to mend.

To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

People look at rights as if they were muscles — the more you exercise them, the better they get.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

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.

Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You’ll look and feel way better for it.

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.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

Imagine this country without the 20 million illegals that are here. Imagine the state of California. And this is not… It’s nothing more than an exercise. It’s nothing more than a little game to play with yourself. Because it’s instructive.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

Everybody always resolves to start exercising, but they never do. You know why ? Because it’s January. Who wants to go jogging in the freezing cold ?

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

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.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.

Dogs have found themselves in an odd predicament by living with humans. In the wild, dogs don’t need humans to achieve balance. They have a pack leader, work for food and travel with the pack. When we bring them into our world, we need to help them achieve balance by fulfilling their needs as nature intended. This takes exercise and discipline before affection, and always maintaining your calm, assertive pack leadership.

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you’re not mad when you see them, you’re happy, and you get right back into it.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

I work out for an hour and a half every day, alternating between cardio and weights. I also do yoga for an hour every alternate day and swim every other day.

… I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.

Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points of pressure on one square. In football, offensive play design (particularly passes) involves putting multiple points of pressure on one player. In chess, you often give your opponent a move that looks strong for him, but it turns into a trap. Football is the same way. I’ve always thought of defense in football as being totally reactive. But now I understand the ways in which football defenses force the offense to make certain choices.