Exertion Quotes
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Exertion Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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
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
