Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and… — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are… — Hitopadesa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent — William Blake Copy Share Image
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Those who make money make little exertion; those who make much exertion make no money. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the… — David Price 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
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of… — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
The far northern scenery is absolutely desolate but is marvelously beautiful, and I shall never regret that I have seen it, even… — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between… — Hannah Kearney Copy Share Image
If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can… — George Will Copy Share Image
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth 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
Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war theater-all are complexes of numerous… — George Dantzig Copy Share Image
We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“He was dangerous. And difficult. And he was all mine. Sometimes in the morning, when he worked in the gym one floor… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse… — William Wilberforce 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
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
