Exercise Quotes

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt in infancy.

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

Exercises cultivated self-reliance - the foundation of courage.

What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.

When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise.

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

The condition of the body limits, largely, the expression of the spirit.

Running is not just exercise; it is a lifestyle.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

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

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth, as some kind of creatures do their food, to be ruminated upon till all the valuable parts be extracted.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Because it is a 'use it or lose it' brain, when we develop a map area [in the brain], we long to keep it activated. Just as our muscles become impatient for exercise if we've been sitting all day.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

You must exercise your caution in laying your plans, but be bold in carrying them out.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.

my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.