Exercise Quotes

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

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

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

Ursula K. LeGuin

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.

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

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

William Proxmire

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

Titus Livius

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Unattributed truth from r. g. frp

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 get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise.

Chauncey Depew

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.

Red Skelton

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Twain

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

Oscar Wilde

When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them.

Wystan Hugh Auden

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

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

Sir Francis Bacon

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

Author Unknown

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

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Blaine Lee

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

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

John Andrew Holme