Exertion Quotes

158 Exertion quotes by 129 unique authors

In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced… — Erasmus Darwin
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle… — Charles Caleb Colton
What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself… — Ralph Cudworth
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. — B. C. Forbes
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would… — Thomas Huxley
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable… — John Stuart Mill
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. — Blaise Pascal
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work. — Anna Pavlova
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active… — Edgar Allan Poe
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind… — George Santayana
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in… — Kristen Stewart
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own… — Ben Stein
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. — Henry David Thoreau
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting… — William Wordsworth
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home… — Rebecca Solnit
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. — Orison Swett Marden
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of… — Don DeLillo
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. — John Ruskin
The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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