Exercise Quotes
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
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
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
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Thomas Jefferson
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.Norman Cousins
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.Sigmund Freud
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.Oscar Wilde
It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond - The - Fringe political view, or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill - File.Unattributed truth from r. g. frp
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
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
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.Chauncey Depew
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.Sir Francis Bacon
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
Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.William Proxmire
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
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
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?
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.Thomas Jefferson
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
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
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.
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
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
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
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.Titus Livius
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
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.M Scott Peck
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 love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.John Erskine
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
