Exercise Quotes
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least - - The privilege of making others happy.Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
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
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
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
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.John Andrew Holme
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
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 sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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?
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 leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.Thomas Jefferson
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
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
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.John Erskine
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Sigmund Freud
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
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 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
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
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.Red Skelton
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
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
