Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth H. Cooper

Exercise is a journey, not a destination. It must be continued for the rest of your life. We do not stop exercising because we grow old - we grow old because we stop exercising.

Kenneth H. Cooper

Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.

Katy Mixon

It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.

Kevin Whately

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

The greatest hazard of exercise is not doing it.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

Jacques Ellul

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

Henry B. Eyring

You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

Henry A. Kissinger

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

Helmut Jahn

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Henry Ford

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

Mallory Ortberg

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Malcolm Muggeridge

When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

Mahatma Gandhi

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

John Adams

A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

John Adams

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Laurence J. Peter

Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.

Larry Gelbart

I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so often we attribute our own feelings on to someone else.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power.

Lord Acton

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.

John Buchan

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Arbuthnot

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Billy Blanks

You can't exercise by sight because your sight will make you quit. You need to exercise by faith.

George H. W. Bush

And I think exercise ought to be one of the top priorities for Americans.

This is a great training opportunity. It's not only an exercise but its also training put on by the federal government.

This is a great opportunity if you're just starting out an exercise program and want to start with a smaller walk.

This helps the kids who aren't getting much exercise during the school day.

Arun Jaitley

This (headcount) is a terrible mistake. The Government must stop this exercise immediately.

Eric Jensen

We have discovered that exercise is strongly correlated with increased brain mass, better cognition, mood regulation, and new cell growth.