Exercise Quotes

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 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

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Anonymous

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

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

Emily Taft Douglas

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

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

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

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holme

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

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

William Proxmire

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Ursula K. LeGuin

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

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?

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

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

Elie Wiesel

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

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

John Calhoun

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

Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.