Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcel Proust

Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues.

Lance Armstrong

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

John Travolta

It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

John Updike

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

John Stuart Mill

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

John Stuart Mill

A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties.

John Shattuck

It is especially imperative for Congress to exercise careful judgment in this area, because of the difficulty under existing laws, in obtaining judicial review of Postal Service abuses. ...We strongly oppose the legislation's infringement of rights guaranteed under the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.

John Ralston Saul

[C]ontent [is] an obstacle to the exercise of power.

John Ralston Saul

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

James Joseph Sylvester

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

Laurence J. Peter

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

Larry Gelbart

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

The greatest hazard of exercise is not doing it.

Jacques Ellul

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

Henry B. Eyring

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Helmut Jahn

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Henry Ford

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Mallory Ortberg

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Malcolm Muggeridge

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

John Adams

A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

John Adams

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

George H. W. Bush

And I think exercise ought to be one of the top priorities for Americans.

This is a great training opportunity. It's not only an exercise but its also training put on by the federal government.

This is a great opportunity if you're just starting out an exercise program and want to start with a smaller walk.

This helps the kids who aren't getting much exercise during the school day.

Arun Jaitley

This (headcount) is a terrible mistake. The Government must stop this exercise immediately.

Eric Jensen

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.

Eric Bana

My chosen exercise is cycling. I just love it.