Body Quotes

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Pete Seege

Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.

Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.

Lord Chesterfield, letter to his godson, December 18, 1765

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.

Sophocles, Antigone

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

Alanis Morissette

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow.

Saudi Prove

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

Get the best out of your body that you can get.

Pat Hall

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

George Washington

Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.

Walter Winchell

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

Maitri Upanishads

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

J. Krishnamarti

The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

Alexander Pope

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Johann von Goethe

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Charles Knight

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment.

Elbert Hubbard

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

Robert Byrne

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation. Funeral oration for Martin Luther King, Sr.

Jesse Louis Jackson

The networks are not some chicken - Coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.

Ralph Nade

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

A. J. Liebling

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Mark Twain

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

George Bernard Shaw

Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.

Happy Gilmore

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero