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.
If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.
Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.
In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one’s energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.
Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy – not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air and exercise.
You think you’re fatigued, therefore you can’t exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
Inches make champions.
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
You know you’ve got to exercise your brain just like your muscles.
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do.
Every major decision I’ve made in the last eight years has been prefaced by a run. Where else do you get those uninterrupted hours to do nothing but think?
Get the mind right, the body will follow.
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.