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
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the… — Ben Morgan Copy Share Image
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration… — George Washington 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
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin 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
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion… — Anonymous 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
Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions… — Aurangzeb Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens 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
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image