Strenuous Quotes

88 quotes by 78 authors

I rely on regular chiropractic care to keep in shape for my strenuous type of acting and singing. — Liza Minnelli
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then… — Patrick Duffy
Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just… — Donald Glover
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of… — George Will
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied… — Max Beerbohm
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some… — Max Planck
A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great;… — Theodore Roosevelt
Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by. — James Van Fleet
Few in these hot, dim, strenuous times are quite sane or free; choked with care like clocks full of dust, laboriously doing so much good… — John Muir
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't… — Harry S. Truman
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. — Ellsworth Huntington
I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I… — Michio Kaku
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. — Theodore Roosevelt
When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief… — James Taylor
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But… — Andrew Weil
The boarding I do is pretty strenuous and because I'm so active I really don't have to work out too often. — Shaun White
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. — William Wordsworth
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can… — Kristin Armstrong

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