Exercise Quotes
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same.Alexander Hamilton
Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.Author Unknown
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato, The Republic
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.Chauncey Depew
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
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.Tryon Edwards
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.Sir Francis Bacon
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.Norman Cousins
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.Richard Milhous Nixon
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.Konrad Lorenz
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
I repeat... that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - And to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.Karl von Bonstetten
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.Anonymous
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.Red Skelton
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.Wystan Hugh Auden
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond - The - Fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill - File.Unattributed truth from r. g. frp
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.Michael J. Gel
