Quotes by Exercise Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age. Marcus Tullius Cicero temperanceageexercise Our virtues themselves are not free and floating qualities over which we retain a permanent control and power of disposal; they come to be so closely linked in our minds with the actions in conjunction with which we have made it our duty to exercise them that if we come to engage in an activity of a different kind, it catches us off guard and without the slightest awareness that it might involve the application of those same virtues. Marcel Proust qualitymindexercise In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions in others who seem to be moved by narrow, brutal and irrational impulses. Their view of their own self-interest is so blinkered as to leave no space for purely human values, for peaceful negotiation or for economic advancement. They are bent on the destruction of the established order and of civilised ways of doing business. They must never be allowed to succeed. Margaret Thatcher selfexercisecountry The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped. Margaret Sanger religiousexercisethinking Do back exercises. Pain is distracting. Margaret Atwood painexercisewriting Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action. Malcolm X benefitspoliticalexercise In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time. Marge Piercy catexerciselying Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. Mahatma Gandhi demandexerciseworld To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. Maria Mitchell exercisewritingbook At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline. Maria Montessori perseveranceexercisechildren It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment. Maria Montessori colorexercisechildren Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise. Marcus Tullius Cicero mindexercise The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education. Maria Montessori environmentessenceexercise We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others. Margaret Thatcher generositymercyexercise Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister. Marian Keyes sinisterexercisemight Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love. Mahatma Gandhi determinationfaithexercise I exercise my right as a free citizen to spend my own money in my own way, so that I can go on the day, the time, to the doctor I choose and get out fast. Margaret Thatcher doctorscitizensexercise You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. Marianne Williamson responsibilityexercisebelieve I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed. Mariah Carey slimableexercise In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object. Marcus Aurelius arrowsexercisemoving«8889909192939495969798»
