Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so it may appear to you... Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise ... and that exercise will make them habitual...

Thomas Jefferson

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

Thomas Brooks

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.

Raymond Loewy

It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.

Victoria Woodhull

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

Victoria Woodhull

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

Victoria Justice

I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.

Gretchen Bleiler

Eat lots of fresh vegetables, drink water, exercise often, and meditate daily.

You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise.

Gretchen Rubin

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.

Herbert Spencer

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Henry David Thoreau

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.

Henry David Thoreau

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

Jessica Lange

I take a jazz class and I also take just a regular exercise class with a man who gives me acupressure treatments. It's just stretching and elongating the muscles.

Jean Vanier

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Jean Vanier

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Jean de La Fontaine

Men of all ages have the same inclinations, over which reason exercises no control. Thus, wherever men are found, there are follies, ay, and the same follies.

Jeff Galloway

Our bodies crave exercise, and reward us in so many ways when we do so.

Jean Chretien

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

Jean Giraudoux

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Fritz Zwicky

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

Fulton J. Sheen

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Jennifer Weiner

If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?

Jennifer Hudson

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

Jennifer Hudson

Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.

Jennifer Hudson

Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.

Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

George Saintsbury

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Sand

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Jenna Fischer

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Jefferson Davis

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Jeff Olson

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.