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If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition. — Ben Morgan

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. — Tahir Shah

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. — Jeremy Bentham

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion. — David McCullough

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. — Joanna Baillie

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. — Adolf Hitler

Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. — Steve Maraboli

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. — Germaine Greer

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. — George Washington

We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure. — Francesc Ferrer I Guardia

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. — Charles Krauthammer

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. — Mary Shelley

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion. — Lao-Tzu

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. — Orison Swett Marden

Souls cannot be saved without exertion. — Ellen G. White

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. — Albert J. Nock

But it was difficult to remain faithful when all about you was blackness and exertion. — David Kirk

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. — Carl Von Clausewitz

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. — Charles De Gaulle

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. — George Eliot

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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. — Robert Burns

At home I sometimes ran for fun, to play with Gerad or just to feel the ache of exertion. — Kiera Cass

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin

his throbbing, bloodied wrists. He panted from the exertion — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. — Frederick Douglass

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. — Henry David Thoreau

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent — William Blake

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. — Joseph Butler

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. — Anna Pavlova

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ... — George Eliot

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion — Haruki Murakami

It was not an exclamation so much, I think, as it was a warding off, an exertion of language upon ignorance and disorder. — N. Scott Momaday

There is a direct correlation between physical exertion and mental relief. — Sakyong Mipham

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. — Joseph Pilates

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice. — Maria Edgeworth

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other — Henry David Thoreau

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. — Hannah More

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force. — Joseph Smith Jr.

The huge veins on his neck throb with the exertion and rush of it all and his whole body flexes and pumps like one enormous, grotesque organ. — Mark Simpson

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. — Florence Nightingale

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B.C. Forbes

Get into the habit of rewarding the intellectual exertion your child puts into a given task rather than his or her native intellectual resources. — John Medina

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. — Kelly Slater

Laughter is the most healthful exertion. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. — Jane Austen

I, however did not like to run. Or, for that matter, engage in any kind of physical exertion. — John Green

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. — Abraham Lincoln

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. — Niels Bohr