Top 415 Exercise Quotes

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When I did ‘Dancing with the Stars’ I did lose an awful lot of weight and I think at the time everybody was sort of alarmed by it. You can eat anything and it is still dropping off you when you are doing that amount of exercise.
Katherine Jenkins
I swim every other day. That’s my exercise.
Andrew Tan
Whether you’ve seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.
Martha Beck
I’ll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It’s a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can’t do that.
Gwyneth Paltrow
I don’t like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don’t exercise them.
Clarke Peters
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
Ed Smith
Exercise has its hazards. Runners are sidelined by shinsplints, freestylists by swimmer’s ear, and who hasn’t heard of tennis elbow? But the fitness buff of the ’90s has a far greater worry. StairMaster Butt.
Jake Tapper
I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Gail Sheehy
Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase ‘working up an appetite.’ A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the ‘mental health club’ that our well-being more truly requires.
Pico Iyer
No matter what your political persuasion, you can find a guide that makes it quick, easy and painless to exercise your right to vote. Wanna know what a certain proposition put forth by a cadre of undisclosed billionaires which cuts funding for public education, arts and infrastructure means? Use the voting guide!
Steven Weber
The theatre is one of those muscles – if you don’t exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.
Dawn French
I think if you exercise, your state of mind – my state of mind – is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
Stone Gossard
I’ve trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs – I just listen to the instructions, and they’re simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath – you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
May-Britt Moser
Balancing the common good with the freedom and liberty to exercise that individuality has been and remains a challenge for those committed to democracy while understanding that the polis ensures our participation and therefore our citizenship.
David Blunkett
I adhere to my exercise program, which is about 20 minutes a day. I do it seven days a week. I have a little stall in the breezeway of our garage where I have a walking machine, a stair climber, and I do 15 pound weights, and I watch television. Because I hate exercise.
Dick Clark
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
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
Tariq Ramadan
I exercise three to four times a week, doing the Tracy Anderson Method, which involves toning and strengthening our small muscle groups.
Natalie Imbruglia
Exercise? A Jew doesn’t exercise.
William Shatner
Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual’s health care.
Aaron Schock
We were made to exercise. We feel better.
Bob Greene
I even get tired performing standup, which is normally a low-impact exercise in futility but looks hard the way I do it. That’s why I take a lot of breaks, often stopping in the middle of a joke to catch my breath, or blame the crowd for not laughing before the punchline.
Andy Kindler
Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calmin

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations.
Chuck Norris
The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
Jack LaLanne
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
Alan Alda
Exercise your brain and body, keep engaged with work and friends, and feed your brain with a healthy, plant-based diet – as well as knowledge.
David H. Murdock
As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better.
Max Heindel
I wrote ‘Hereafter’ quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.
Peter Morgan
As a teacher at Princeton, I’m surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don’t really think of it as work – writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
Joyce Carol Oates
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
Anna C. Brackett
My dad, who is a heart surgeon, works with many adult patients who did not take good care of their bodies in their formative years. He is able to teach them how to break old eating and exercise habits and reshape their bodies, but not without a great deal of resistance.
Daphne Oz
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it’s just a different way to make notes.
Geoff Mulgan
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
Dick Van Dyke
Green exercise improves psychological health.
Richard Louv
I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don’t exercise and do the other two, I still don’t think it’s going to help you that much.
Mike Ditka
I bought myself a bike in isolation and a helmet and I love it. It’s built my confidence up because not everyone is confident in exercise.
Gemma Collins
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
Ellen G. White
Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
Amity Shlaes
The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.
Sun Yat-sen
Why do I run? It’s the best form of exercise. It’s totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good – anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.
Tate Donovan
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
Your brain will eventually enjoy exercise for exercise sake, right; endorphins and endocannabinoids will create a sense of reward, but it doesn’t know that at first.
Charles Duhigg
I always said I was never going to be one of those people to Instagram myself in the gym. But as soon as you get into exercise and get a taste of how brilliant it makes you feel, you want to share it!
Caroline Flack
I go on tremendous health kicks – exercise, yogurt, no booze. Of course, I smoke too much.
Ava Gardner
I feel the pressure to be toned, yeah, and everyone’s going on about the thigh gap, but I like food more than exercise, so I’ll just carry on that way.
Sophie Turner
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
I make time to exercise. It’s not being indulgent. I think it’s got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There’s no doubt about that.
Ginni Rometty
It’s challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
Joely Fisher
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
William Morris
Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.
Mary McFadden
I’ve always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.
Adrian Edmondson