When the leader passes over all alike, not making a…

“It is not the actual, physical exertion that counts towards one’s progress, not the nature of the task but by the spirit of faith…

— Anonymous

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— George Eliot

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not…

— Bret Harte

customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one…

— Sarah Siddons

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying…

— Ralph Cudworth

“He was dangerous. And difficult. And he was all mine. Sometimes in the morning, when he worked in the gym one floor below, I’d…

— Ilona Andrews

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all…

— H. L. Mencken

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

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

— Maria Edgeworth

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant