Exercise Quotes

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time.

Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.

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

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas.

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

I exercise most days.

I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested.