Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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
Those who make money make little exertion; those who make much exertion make no money. — Vikrant Parsai 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
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
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
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
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
Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they… — William Batchelder Greene 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
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent — William Blake Copy Share Image
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. — Abraham Lincoln 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
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
"Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin 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
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only… — Henry David Thoreau 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
If physical exercise were combined with mental exertion, the blood would be quickened in its circulation, the action of the heart would… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must… — Daniel H. Wells 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
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
