Exercise Quotes

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. (Sigmund Freud)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. View quote
Richard Steele
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. View quote
John Adams
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. View quote
Joseph Addison
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. View quote
Bertrand Russell
God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
Let each man exercise the art he knows. View quote
Aristophanes
...there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. View quote
William Henry Harrison
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. View quote
Gore Vidal
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. (Aleister Crowley)
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. View quote
L. Neil Smith
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. View quote
Joseph Addison
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both. View quote
Václav Havel
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. View quote
Chauncey Depew
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. View quote
Konrad Lorenz
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. (Elihu Root)
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. View quote
José Martí
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music. View quote
Billie Holiday
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. View quote
Edmund Burke