Exercise Quotes - Page 10

• We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live

  Peter McWilliams

  Suicide, Animal, Laughing

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• It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

  Richard Lovelace

  Children, Acceptance, Fire

  "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".

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• Advice? Focus on the craft. Study the greats. Try and understand how and why they made the writing choices they did. Then, start by copying them...just as an exercise. See if you can do similar things. Learn how to write a song like so and so. Then, when you've done that, write a song like yourself. Learn to color within the lines before going outside them.

  Patrick Stump

  Song, Writing, Color

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• Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers

  Edwin Hutchins

  Creating, Environment, Humans

  Edwin Hutchins (1995). “Cognition in the Wild”, p.169, MIT Press

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• Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Determination, And Love

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leader, Essentials, Increase

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• Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

  Bill Moyers

  Democracy

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field.

  Vinnie Tortorich

  Inspirational, Things In Life, Comforting

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• The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.

  Dixon Edward Hoste

  Trust, Wise, Christian

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• I learned words, I learned words; but half of them
  died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use
  often look at me
  with a look that whispers, Liar.

  Norman MacCaig

  Liars, Looks, Use

  Norman MacCaig (2013). “The Many Days: Selected Poems of Norman MacCaig”, p.13, Birlinn

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• We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Liberty, Levels, Dominance

  Margaret Thatcher (1988). “Britain and Europe: Text of the Prime Minister's Speech at Bruges on 20th September 1988”

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• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Two, Contradiction, Authority

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”

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• The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Thinking, Finals, Belief

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.129, Indiana University Press

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• When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.

  Mencius

  Men, Office, Heaven

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.323

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• Stop complaining about having no time for yourself and get up an hour earlier. You have the option, why not exercise it?

  Robin Sharma

  Complaining, Why Not, Time For Yourself

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.64, Jaico Publishing House

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Choices

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• The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

  Norman O. Brown

  Health, Self, Order

  Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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

  John P. Kotter

  Views, Practice, Psychology

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• Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Christian, Heart, Sleep

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his knowledge of his craft, experience of the conditions of his place, and exercise of his personal wit can work together to suggest, that so surely will God give the increase. Then with the honestly-earned success comes the consciousness of encouragement to renewed effort, and, as it were, an echo of the gracious words, 'Well done my good and faithful servant'.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Faith, Encouragement

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

  F. Enzio Busche

  Love, Humble, Power

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• When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

  Confucius

  Principles, Path, Reciprocity

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.290

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• Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Jesus, Names

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.1, B&H Publishing Group

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