Exercise Quotes

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

There is no merit in a special talent unless its exercise is of use to others.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.

I have high blood sugars, and Type 2 diabetes is not going to kill me. But I just have to eat right, and exercise, and lose weight, and watch what I eat, and I will be fine for the rest of my life.

Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

Back in my rummy days, I would tremble and shake for hours upon arising. It was the only exercise I got.

The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated.

Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

No, by my soul, I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.

I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

Giving is like a muscle. To be strong, you have to exercise it, and to grow as a person, giving is the exercise. You can't really enjoy anything without sharing it.

Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

When I'm on the road, I'll break my exercise into a cardio session and a weights session.

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up.

I believe that a healthy lifestyle isn't just a regular exercise routine or your eating habits, but a synergy of a healthy mind and body.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. ” “Chase him down? How? The Neon has a flat.” “With your own two feet!” “You mean exercise?

The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity-in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

Many do not advance in Christian progress because they stick in penances and particular exercises, while they neglect the love of God, which is the end.

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

He's got a rematch clause in his contract but I'm not sure if he's going to want to exercise that rematch but if he does, I'd happily oblige. I'll go over to Canada and give him another whooping.