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Exercise Quotes

On the exercise that goes well beyond the body.

One quote describes running for a whole lifetime less for the body than for mental health, treating exercise as maintenance for the mind first. See more in our Fitness quotes.

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

Quotes by Adrian Edmondson

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.

Quotes by Adnan Sami

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Quotes by Adam Smith

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

Quotes by Adam Grant

Exercises Quotes

It's cool that our stuff is received as it is, and our stuff is fairly long. But from a songwriter's purview as well as an exercise, I'm trying to write shorter material and find ways to condense ideas.

Quotes by Adam Granduciel

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their...

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

Quotes by Yingluck Shinawatra

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So...

Quotes by Wolfgang Tillmans

I eat right. I exercise. I run 5 miles a day on the treadmill.

Quotes by Wolf Blitzer

Exercising Quotes

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

Quotes by William Whewell

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

Quotes by William R. Alger

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

Quotes by William Godwin

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

Quotes by William Ames

It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

Quotes by William Banting

Exertion Quotes

I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

Quotes by Wendelin Van Draanen

The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.

Quotes by Wayne LaPierre

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Quotes by Walter Martin

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes....

Quotes by Walter Dean Myers

Fitness Quotes

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about running for mental health rather than just exercise?
Yes: "I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health."
Is there a quote that plays on the word 'exercise' in a constitutional sense?
Yes, a wordplay rather than a fitness quote: "The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment." It uses 'exercise' in the civic sense of exercising a right, not physical exercise.
Is there a quote connecting exercising faith to prayer?
Yes, framed as personal religious belief rather than fact: "He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us." It follows an earlier line about God graciously entertaining prayers.
Is there a quote about journaling becoming 'an exercise in self-consciousness'?
Yes: "I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness."
Where can I find more related quotes?

Others stretch the word further, from exercising faith through prayer to the honest admission that trying to keep a journal quickly turns into an exercise in overthinking every sentence. Pair these with our Exercises quotes or thoughts on Exertion.