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Exercise Quotes

Aug 15, 2021
2 min read

Updated: Jul 22, 2025

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

John F Kennedy


If you work out, everything else will too.

Shella Leard


Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.



No whining. No complaining. No excuses.

Angela Duckworth


An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.



Even when all is known, the care of a man is not yet complete, because eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise. For food and exercise, while possessing opposite qualities, yet work together to produce health.

Hippocrates


Sweat is just fat crying.



The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise.

Thomas Edison


Exercise is therapy.



Any exercise is better than no exercise.



Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

Plato


Exercise is a celebration of what your body can do. Not a punishment for what you ate.



It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigour.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


The time spent in physical exercise is not lost…A proportionate exercise of all the organs and faculties of the body is essential to the best work of each. When the brain is constantly taxed while the other organs of the living machinery are inactive, there is a loss of strength, physical and mental.

Ellen G White


Success starts with self-discipline.



An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Thoreau


If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

Hippocrates


Good things come to those who sweat.

2025

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