Exertions Quotes
47 quotes by 38 authors
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the…
— George Washington
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It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either…
— Michael Faraday
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In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government…
— George Washington
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The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which…
— Erwin Rommel
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The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
— Walter Scott
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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no…
— Friedrich List
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Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold…
— Robert E. Lee
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Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined…
— Joseph Warren
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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness…
— Robert Dale Owen
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human…
— Eric Hoffer
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Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
— Edward Rutledge
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To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of…
— Nassau William Senior
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The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain for…
— Thomas Malthus
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Your least frequent, most extreme exertions will have the greatest influence on your fitness. The peak moments of a workout count far more than the…
— Arthur De Vany
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..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts,…
— George Washington
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Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real trust in God,…
— George Muller
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
— William Hazlitt
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It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money; for when money can be had in this way, repayment is seldom thought of…
— George Washington
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