Exercise Quotes - Page 19

• All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving the blood becomes tainted, its waste matter lodges in the skin, and the condition of the whole body deteriorates.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Moving, Science, Blood

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• Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Progress, God Love

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• Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Drawing, Feelings

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

  Ellen Goodman

  Joy, Lists, Pleasure

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• If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

  Ronald L. Buckwalter

  Government, Law, Land

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Common Sense, Principles

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• Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Needs, Dignity

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Greatness, Mind, Ambitious

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

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• Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Reading, Television Watching, Leader

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• A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

  Richard Schickel

  Character, Fate, Fiction

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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