Exercise Quotes

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

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.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.