To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
I have tennis shoes with little rhinestones that I slip on if I exercise. But I always wear heels, even around the house. I'm such a short little thing, I can't reach my kitchen cabinets.
The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander in Chief and the country.
Study and work and work and study will keep in active exercise both the physical and mental. These two, rightly conducted, will not war against each other.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
