Famous Quotes & Sayings

Socrates

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Michelle Obama

I've always been a closet jock. With exercising, the more you do it, the more you get into it. And the more you see results, the more you're pushing for the next level.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

John Quincy Adams

It is so obvious to every reasonable being that he did not make himself, and the world in which he inhabits could as little make itself, that the moment we begin to exercise the power of reflection, it seems impossible to escape the conviction that there is a Creator.

John Patrick Shanley

Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise. You may come out of my play uncertain. You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time.

John Paul Stevens

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof that the pig is obscene.

John P. Kotter

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

John P. Kotter

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

John Owen

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

Noel Coward

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.

Noel Coward

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

Nneka

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.

John Newton

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

John Stamos

I started Pilates. I'm the only guy in there. They plot before I get there: 'How can we make John look ridiculous?' Because every exercise involved my legs up, like I'm in the stirrups or something.

Sheryl Crow

One of the great exercises you can do is to stop and acknowledge the colors around you... If you're constantly distracting yourself, then you're never really experiencing anything fully. It can cause you to feel like you have no center, like nothing is grounding you.

Nora Ephron

There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.

Nikolai Berdyaev

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Nicole Ari Parker

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Nicole Ari Parker

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

Monica Lewinsky

Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.

Miranda Kerr

Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

John Wycliffe

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

Marilynne Robinson

Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,

Maria Montessori

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

Pat Mitchell

VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.

P. J. O'Rourke

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Plato

We should not exercise the body without the joint assistance of the mind; nor exercise the mind without the joint assistance of the body.

Paulo Freire

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Amazingly, only 15 percent of U.S. adults engage in regular vigorous physical activity, and 60 percent report getting effectively no exercise at all from regular or sustained leisure time activity.

Paula Abdul

There are three things I commit to on a daily basis: Exercising for an hour a day, tops. Never skipping meals. And accepting the size and shape I was born with.

Martin Seligman

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.