There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue;… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
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… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Magic is the power within oneself. You have enough strength, exertion and energy to view things as they are, personally, properly, and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
