Exertion Quotes
Exertion Quote of the day
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality.
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens.
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
