1,154 Quotes About Exercise

  • Author Deepak Chopra
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    When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.

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  • Author Deepak Chopra
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    Not only does exercise keep the body young, but it also keeps the mind vital and promotes emotional well-being. The important thing is to start off slowly, find physical activities you enjoy, and do them regularly.

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  • Author Dick Cavett
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    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.

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  • Author Dr. Conerly
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    I exercise every day. I walk a treadmill and do a weight training program every day at the Wellness Center. I think that allows me to maintain my strength.

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  • Author Drew Curtis
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    Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

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  • Author Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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    The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear--in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust--that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience.

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  • Author Emile M. Cioran
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    Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

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  • Author Ethan Coen
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    It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

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