Exertion Quotes

158 Exertion quotes by 129 unique authors

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion — Haruki Murakami
Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised… — Frank Beddor
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was… — Wilkie Collins
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good;… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them… — Ludwig von Mises
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a… — Henry David Thoreau
...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion… — Connie Brockway
Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required. — Jane Austen
[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case… — Frederick Douglass
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and… — Mary Wollstonecraft
A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving… — Daniel Kahneman
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All… — John Ruskin
Laughter is the most healthful exertion. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and… — Winston Churchill
As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless. — Charles Simmons
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense,… — Joseph de Maistre
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training… — Hannah Kearney
I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and… — Hannah Kearney
I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing… — Chris Pine
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a… — Leland Stanford
Souls cannot be saved without exertion. — Ellen G. White

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