Exercise Quotes - Page 18

• He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Mirth

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.164, A&C Black

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

  Noel Coward

  Secret, Aspirin, Awful

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• Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Lying, Urges

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• Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Pain, Needs, Reason

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• Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

  Jane Austen

  Opportunity, Talent, Enough

  Jane Austen (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, ...)”, p.1579, Jane Austen

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• By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Character, Mean, Greatness

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• Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Body, Pilates, Program

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• A new study found that Americans are exercising more than ever but still not losing much weight. Not good in fact, it's all I could think about on my jog to Dunkin' Donuts.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking, Weight, Dunkin Donuts

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• But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Doe, Earth

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.52

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• If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.

  G. H. Hardy

  Real, Silly, Sacrifice

  "A Mathematician's Apology".

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• Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

  Alex Haley

  Wisdom, Fate, Destiny

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Race, People, Wife

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Drink, Occasional

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• Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Titles

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• Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fate, Men, Soul And Body

  The Rambler, No 85, January 8, 1751.

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Cynical, Heroism

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• No child should be permitted to grow up without exercise for imagination. It enriches life for him. It makes things wonderful and beautiful.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Children, Growing Up

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• If we choose to exercise faith, the Holy Ghost will bring God's kindnesses to our remembrance.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kindness, Remembrance, Ghost

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• I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Able

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• It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

  Dalai Lama

  Important, May, Way

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• Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

  Mas Oyama

  Sports, Spiritual, Self

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• Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

  Martin Luther

  May, Doe, Needs

  Martin Luther (1896). “Luther's Primary Works: Together with His Shorter and Larger Catechisms”

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• It takes a lot to motivate me to exercise but Physique 57 is the ideal workout, it's efficient, fun and targeted to get the results you didn't think were possible!

  Demi Moore

  Workout, Fun, Thinking

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• 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.

  Zig Ziglar

  Strong, Giving, Muscles

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Honor your body. Keep it in good shape. It is the most important physical tool that you have. Exercise is the meditation of the body. It allows you to feel Oneness with all of Life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Oneness, Meditation, Honor

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 17, 2014

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