Exercise Quotes

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

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

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?

Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

William Proxmire

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

When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Thomas Jefferson

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

Elie Wiesel

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

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

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 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

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

Red Skelton

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