Exercise Quotes

You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to live there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy.

Ollie Hille

The only pushup you won't be able to do is the one you never do.

Gwen Ro

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

Andrew Solomon

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

Jillian Michaels

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gelb

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler (London)

From warm meals, to daily exercise, to healthcare; one can't help but wonder how our society would be different if tended to the elderly as we do to our imprisoned.

Steve Maraboli

The physically fit can enjoy their vices.

Lord Percival

Use it or lose it.

Jimmy Connors

Go jogging? What, and get hit by a meteor?

Robert Benchley

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

Carol Leifer

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Chauncey Depew

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

David Mccord

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

John Donne, Letter, September, 1

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Neil Armstrong, on jogging, in a

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

Susan B. Anthony