Exertion Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exertion Hard Hard Exertion Success Success Wins Sweetest Sweetest Success Winning Wins Hard
My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and… — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image
Success is when you get knocked down, and you still fight your way back up. — Alexia Copy Share Image
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is success?' It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way. — Kevin Keegan Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is not the actual, physical exertion that counts towards one’s progress, not the nature of the task but by the spirit of faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first… — James Fitzjames Stephen Copy Share Image
All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all… — H. L. Mencken 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 below, I’d… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Nowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image