Exercise Quotes

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The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most brilliant intelligence of… — John F. Kennedy
Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people… — Hippocrates
A strong body makes the mind strong. — Thomas Jefferson
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving… — Bernardino Ramazzini
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Since then, I have not missed five consecutive days in getting some type of aerobic exercise, mostly jogging. — Kenneth H. Cooper
I have been doing leg lifts faithfully for about fifteen years, and the only thing that has gotten thinner is the carpet where I have… — Rita Rudner
I joined a health spa recently. They had a sign for "Free Weights." So I took a couple. — Scott Wood
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. — Martial
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the… — Edmund Morgan
My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale. — Les Dawson
The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is… — Eric Gill
Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature.… — Thomas Jefferson
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin
There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is… — Lena Dunham
I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look… — Lena Dunham
Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies. — Ellen G. White
God designed that the living machinery should be in daily activity. For in this activity or motion is its preserving power.... The more we exercise,… — Ellen G. White

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