Exercise Quotes
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
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
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.Anonymous
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
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
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.Oscar Wilde
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
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
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
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
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
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
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.Red Skelton
Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.Thomas Jefferson
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
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.William Henry Harrison
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 happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.Bertrand Russell
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
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.Michael J. Gel
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
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
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
