Top 415 Exercise Quotes

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.
Colbie Caillat
Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.
Lee Haney
I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a pretty good technique on the guitar and allowed me to find different ways to do things.
Trevor Rabin
The reason most people get eating disorders is because they want to be skinny, but they do it stupidly, and they stop eating completely – nobody knows anything about nutrition or exercise. I think it should be a separate subject in school.
Kathryn Prescott
Every time I exercise, I do something different based on which areas need to get in motion.
Sharon Stone
Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don’t overdo it.
Martina Navratilova
I don’t smoke, drink. I exercise, drink lots of water, eat well, don’t sun. Me cuido. There’s a lot of things that I want to do.
Thalia
I’m training in martial arts. It’s a whole new world for me and I’m loving it. I do that or hot yoga; I have to do some kind of exercise.
Zawe Ashton
I’m not someone who has a lengthy attention span, and that applies to my exercise routine as well.
Jai Courtney
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Tryon Edwards
I am athletic and I exercise a lot, so I might look like I dance, but I don’t.
Emma Weymouth
Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it’s not a whole lot more than that.
Shannon Miller
I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.
Julio Iglesias
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It’s mere diversion.
John Ortberg
If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don’t fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don’t work for me.
Deborah Norville
Exercise is more important than diet for me because it’s a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you’re a representative of the public, there’s never a shortage of things to do.
Aaron Schock
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
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
William Temple
Dog parks can be a fantastic way to socialize your dog, but it’s important for owners to understand that a dog park isn’t exercise and isn’t a substitute for walk. A visit to the dog park is fun – play time.
Cesar Millan
I am a particular fan of integrative exercise – that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.
Andrew Weil
Exercise is labor without weariness.
Samuel Johnson
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
A good feeling for me is when you train, and then you put on fresh clothes. New clothes after a training session – you have this rush of endorphins from exercise that everybody gets, and then you get that nice feeling of fresh clothes. It’s a double whammy.
Conor McGregor
I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I ca

I will always have pain. But I exercise as much as I can, and I find that makes a huge difference. And if my body does seize up, I have a pain plan in place. If it escalates, I go back to my doctor.
Jennifer Grey
I’m sure I’ve all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World’ as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.
Dick Cavett
It’s important that period films aren’t seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
Kate Winslet
I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it’s not necessarily fun, but it’s a good exercise.
Brad Pitt
Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.
Evgeny Morozov
Sexy is attitude, but fitness for me is my dance. I dance two hours nearly every day. You break into good sweat, and it doesn’t even feel like exercise. Apart from that, I enjoy Pilates.
Jiah Khan
Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it’s also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
Helen Fisher
Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn’t normally be called upon in life.
Jenna Fischer
People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can’t put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.
Monty Don
Early on, it’s good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you’re writing about is not that relevant.
Walter Gilbert
Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don’t like the term ‘exercising.’ I feel like with sport, you’re playing games. But with exercise, you’re literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It’s weird.
James McAvoy
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there.
Pierre Schaeffer
Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney
Sometimes I take this women’s exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn’t say it’s a women’s class. There’s maybe two men.
Mike Birbiglia
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Frances Wright
For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I’d have to do.
Dennis Quaid
They actually bought me for Daredevil 2, but they have to exercise the option.
Joe Pantoliano
Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.
Jason Reynolds
I know exercise is important, but I hate it!
Gayle King
Exercise, yoga, and systematic life definitely helps you, but basically, you have to be happy.
Sridevi
I’m from the South – I love to eat, and that’s why I have to exercise.
Kelly Rowland
Discipline may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology.
Michel Foucault
I think that making love is the best form of exercise.
Cary Grant
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
After the age of 40, human beings are prone to various infection, diseases and physical damage. Engaging in regular exercise is the only way to combat such issues.
Vivek
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
If I could give one tip for people – it’s not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It’s to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don’t get you in shape. It’s your accountability to your word.
Brett Hoebel
For me, exercise is a form of meditation and I find it very calming.
A. J. Pritchard
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or

I’m tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
L. Neil Smith
The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That’s probably the hardest exercise I did.
Stephen Furst
I like to work out in the gym, but when I’m in Miami, it’s all about the beach for exercise.
Ser’Darius Blain
I have – I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else – I can assure of that.
Ron Davies
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
Michael Polanyi
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
John Mellencamp
It’s easy to fall into a funk and not want to exercise, or to really want that second piece of chocolate cake. I have to say, I fight against those feelings all year. But I try not to let myself sit in a rut like that.
JoJo