Exercise Quotes
2359 quotes by 1680 authors
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Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like the muscles of the body.
— Lynn Jennings
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Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people…
— Andrei Lankov
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A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is…
— Aristotle
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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.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, to be compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; hence it is justly regarded as unsafe…
— David Hume
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What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems,…
— Noam Chomsky
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It's been such a powerful exercise, every morning to get up and say thank you, every morning ...... what am I grateful for ...... and…
— James Arthur Ray
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There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently…
— Joseph Addison
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Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness…
— Lord Chesterfield
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In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of…
— Alexander Pope
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Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.
— Anil Ambani
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The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who…
— John F. Kennedy
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It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
— August Bournonville
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises,…
— Jean Paul
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Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and…
— Richard Hornby
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You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting…
— Sharon Gannon
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A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you…
— Mariel Hemingway
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Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,…
— Patrick Henry
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