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
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.Wystan Hugh Auden
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.Chauncey Depew
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
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.Red Skelton
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.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 sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.John Adams
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
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
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
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
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
Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.John Calhoun
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.Anonymous
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.John Erskine
Let each man exercise the art he knows.Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B. C.
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
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
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
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.Henry Robinson Luce
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
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
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
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 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
If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.Emily Taft Douglas
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?
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
