Exercise Motivation Quotes

Getting more exercise isn't only good for your waistline. It's a natural anti-depressant, that leaves you in a great mood. ~ Auliq Ice

Create a routine. If you take these two steps --setting aside the time and making your body move--three or four days per week, hen you have in effect established a routine. It is this routine, this plan, this expectation of yourself that is going to give you the power to change the nature of your relationship with exercise. ~ Bob Harper

If you can't resist a burger craving, then go for it, but take off the cheese (that saves you at least 120 calories), avoid special sauces, and make burger "topless"---eat only one side of the bun. Or you can wrap the burger in lettuce and forget the bun entirely. ~ Bob Harper

You never hear someone called beautiful who neglects themselves. ~ Toni Sorenson

If you want to become more attractive,
change your energy,
dance, jog, rollerblade, lift free weights.
Whatever pleases you,
and tones your body
in a beautiful way. ~ Linda Alfiori

As you merge your heart, mind, and body and give all that you are to optimizing your health, remember to love yourself and to be your own best friend. ~ Bob Harper

Cardio fitness is an important part of getting in shape and improving your overall health. Any exercise that is aerobic, in which you increase the amount of oxygen you take in and your heart pumps more blood, improves not only your cardiovascular health but your level of fitness as well as helping you lose weight. ~ Bob Harper

It's also important to reject any feelings of compulsion, guilt or negativity about sub-par or missed workouts. ~ Mark Sisson

She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun. ~ Donna Leon

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill. ~ Munia Khan

We are all creatures of habit, and when we make any change in our daily or weekly routine, we feel it. But soon your workout will become not only a reliable part of your day but a "must" on your to-do list. ~ Bob Harper

A healthy body is a platform for flourishing a healthy mind. ~ Pawan Mishra

The best day to start exercising is today. Tomorrow can turn into weeks, months or years. ~ Mark Dilworth

Get used to planning ahead of time some if not all of your meals in the initial weeks of following my eating plan. This will help you have the right foods on hand when you get hungry. Hunger and tempting foods make for bad decisions! ~ Bob Harper

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. ~ Jesse Jackson

Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge ... Joy is there everywhere. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind. ~ Epictetus

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. ~ Charles Dickens

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God. ~ Saint Augustine

The future is bright like the morning sun. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

To feel strong, to walk amongst humans with a tremendous feeling of confidence and superiority is not at all wrong. The sense of superiority in bodily strength is borne out by the long history of mankind paying homage in folklore, song and poetry to strong men ~ Fredrick Hatfield

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history. ~ Brene Brown

Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation BY EDWARD L. DECI WITH RICHARD FLASTE ~ Daniel H. Pink

The fact that they might still be alive in 5, 25, or even 50 years' time is not enough to motivate fools to look after their bodies. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You ought to explore, search and seek the boundless possibilities in life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be. ~ Martin Dugard

When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population. ~ Jason W Clay

I accept the fact that there is always a way out in every situation we find ourselves but, until we begin to ponder, panacea will be very scarce ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~ Alfred Tennyson

We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking phisical exercise. ~ Musonius Rufus

The more you hate, more you think about it, more you increase your own stress. ~ Mohit Manke

By failing to engage it in intellectually challenging activities, your brain will fail to grow new connections, and it will indeed become disorganized and ultimately dysfunctional. The converse is also true for both body and brain. If someone who has not been physically active for a sustained period starts a program of physical therapy and regular exercise, she can regain her muscle mass and tone within a matter of months. The same thing is true of your brain. ~ Ray Kurzweil

Motivation will keep
you
going forwards,
Hesitation will only
drag you
backwards. ~ Mouloud Benzadi

Fear is an isometric exercise ~ Lionel Shriver

Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively exercise our faith. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives. ~ Richard G. Scott

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy. ~ Shantideva

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within. ~ John C. Maxwell

Moments of sadness, grief, unhappiness and lack of motivation are results of stepping back, just move on and challenge your limits, you will do it. ~ Santosh Kalwar

I do not apologize for advertising. I think it is as vital to the preservation of freedom in my country as the free exercise of publishing a newspaper or the free exercise of building a church or the free exercise of the right of trial by jury. ~ Thomas Dillon

I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching. ~ Anna Quindlen

All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost. ~ Louis Claude De Saint-Martin

What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful? ~ Brian Tracy

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience ~ Julian Pencilliah

Fear isn't what it appears to be,
it's a motivation that sets us free,
keep scratching, chewing and kicking me,
waiting for that moment in time to flee,
when it erupts in disbelief,
when it's exposed and we let it be,
without its hold it has no meaning. ~ Jess "Chief" Brynjulson

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic. ~ Arianna Huffington

The best way to solve a problem is not to think of it as a problem but just as a difficulty or a challenge. Technically, the obstacle is the same, but you'll be able to approach it with a positive attitude that sharpens the mind and beats a path towards more solutions in the future. ~ A.G. Roemmers

Whenever you do judge, the only basis of judgment is not your own perspective or anything else, it's the very character and nature of God and that's why we are to allow Him to exercise His justice, where I personally want to take it upon myself. ~ Josh McDowell