Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Bridges

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

George Saintsbury

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.

George Sand

The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

Jenna Fischer

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

Jefferson Davis

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

Jeff Olson

Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great life. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

Jean Vanier

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Jean Vanier

Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.

Grover Norquist

I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.

Grover Cleveland

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Gisele Bundchen

Breathing is my best ally. By doing simple breathing exercises, I can quickly come back to center and feel more grounded.

Halle Berry

I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.

Hannah Arendt

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

Gene Tunney

But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of exercises that I devised for conditioning men in the navy, I guarantee that you will enjoy increased physical buoyancy and mental vigor.

Gene Tunney

A boxer must exercise and develop every part of his body.

Gene Tunney

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

Garry Winogrand

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

Gail Porter

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

Frederick Douglass

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Felicity Huffman

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Felicity Jones

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

Felix Frankfurter

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Ezra Stiles

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Ezra Taft Benson

With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning.

Ezra Taft Benson

Take care of yourselves physically. Guard your health carefully. It is one of our greatest blessings. I especially encourage some type of exercise program so you can stay physically fit and physically capable in proportion to the demands on your body.

Ezra Taft Benson

Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to oneself-it is a heritage to be passed on. With good health, all other activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.

Francis Quarles

If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Francis Beaumont

As men do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, After supper. 'Tis their exercise.

Francis Bacon

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Between this and the exercise, the meals kind of go to the wayside.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Robert Kiyosaki

It is not much different from a person who goes to the gym to exercise on a regular basis versus someone who sits on the couch watching television. Proper physical exercise increases your chances of health, and proper mental exercise increases your chances for wealth. Laziness decreases both health and wealth.