Exercise Quotes

• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Success
  • Food

• Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Success
  • Victory

• I am the queen of exercise variety.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Exercise

• The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Different
  • Film
  • Theatre

• We use a neck training machine where you can strengthen the muscles, going front to back, side to side. You can also connect a big resistance band to a wall or something and do the exercise like that.

  

  Valtteri Bottas
  • Band
  • Training
  • Wall

• ...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Cure
  • Diseases
  • Medicines

• With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Health

• Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Play
  • Well Known
  • Visceral

• Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

  

  Lee Haney
  • World
  • Small
  • Goals

• The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . .

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Struggle

• A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.

  

  Marshall Field
  • Opportunity
  • Control
  • Exercise

• It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Exercise

• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  

  C. Lloyd Morgan
  • May
  • Action
  • Animal

• If you do Bikram Yoga, you exercise your body 100 percent.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Exercise
  • Yoga

• Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

  

  Linford Christie
  • Exercise

• I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Fun
  • Interviews
  • Prone

• I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Australia or Curacao. And what's even more distressing is the fact that I've gotten the same results using the exercise with adults in Scotland and Australia in the year 2002 that I got using the exercise with children in Riceville, Iowa, in 1968.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Exercise
  • Results
  • Berlin

• I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Life
  • Words
  • Question

• As the installments in the 'Immortals After Dark' series span simultaneous timelines, making sure the details remained accurate was a hair-raising/losing exercise.

  

  Kresley Cole
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • Exercise

• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Long
  • Character
  • Interesting

• If you look at your companies, and half of your staff are not female, and a decent percentage of them are not people of color, then you are part of the problem because you need people working for you and you need people in positions of leadership who can exercise their bias and who can exercise their perspective.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Color
  • Leadership

• I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

  

  Betty White
  • Up
  • Time
  • Bad

• Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Advice
  • Blame
  • Follow

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