Exercise Quotes
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
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 love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.John Henry Newman
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Ursula K. LeGuin
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.Marcus Valerius Martialis
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.Sir Francis Bacon
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Sir Richard Steele
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
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
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
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.Elie Wiesel
I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.Chauncey Depew
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
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.Author Unknown
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.Earl of Chesterfield
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.W. Somerset Maugham
A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.Anonymous
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.Konrad Lorenz
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 need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.George Santayana
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
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
