“I, however did not like to run. Or, for that matter, engage in any kind of physical exertion.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
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
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself. — Walter Scott 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
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of… — Maria Jeritza 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
There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
… the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the… — David Livingstone 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
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
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still… — John Stuart Mill 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
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
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Because the utopian's worldview was framed around moving toward this perfected future, it helped stimulate the private exertions that add up to… — Christine Jennings 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 have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to the other” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and… — Horace Mann 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
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
There's a lot of muscles in your eyes even that you dont ever work, but little human traits like showing signs of… — Kristanna Loken 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
One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
“It is not the actual, physical exertion that counts towards one’s progress, not the nature of the task but by the spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is forever the same; the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion.… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
