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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering. -- Carl von Clausewitz
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. -- B. C. Forbes
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. -- Gerrit Smith
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
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. -- Robert Burns
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 from within. -- Ralph Cudworth
Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion. -- David Price
The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. -- Maria Jeritza
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours. -- Charles Babbage
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 - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. -- Charles Babbage
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 it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. -- William Wordsworth
Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches. -- Martin Van Buren
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. -- Major Taylor
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. -- Charles Buck
Souls cannot be saved without exertion. -- Ellen G. White
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion ... -- George Eliot
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. -- John Ruskin
Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion. -- Florence Nightingale
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. -- Henry David Thoreau
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. -- Blaise Pascal
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 exertions. -- Ben Stein
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 many exertions. -- George Santayana
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 of dedicated individuals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 runs, and then the runs themselves. -- 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 eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it. -- Chris Pine
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 bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion. -- Leland Stanford
One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing. -- Abby Wambach
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that. -- Michelle Yeoh
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 go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion. -- Hannah Kearney
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 creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill
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 still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? -- Robert Dale Owen
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 they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion. -- Kristen Stewart
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Laughter is the most healthful exertion. -- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable. -- Frederick Douglass
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion -- Haruki Murakami
In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion. -- David McCullough
The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful. -- Abraham Lincoln
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. -- Henry David Thoreau
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance. -- Carl von Clausewitz
In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly. -- Charles de Gaulle
Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion. -- Albert J. Nock
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me. -- Thomas Love Peacock
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion. -- Andrew Solomon
Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent -- William Blake
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. -- Charles Krauthammer
When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war. -- Adolf Hitler
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. -- Samuel Smiles
Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted. -- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger. -- Joanna Baillie
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. -- Aristotle
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. -- Joseph Pilates
The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. -- Jeremy Bentham
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
If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition. -- Ben Morgan
Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction. -- Jane Austen
Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict. -- Hannah More
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified. -- Niels Bohr
Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion. -- William Wilberforce
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
The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade. -- Tahir Shah
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
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. -- Phyllis Bottome
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. -- George Washington
Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good. -- Joseph Butler
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice. -- Maria Edgeworth
...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 other happiness. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche. -- Germaine Greer
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. -- Kelly Slater
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is the offspring of immortality. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion. -- Phyllis Bottome
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 full exertion of their powers. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief. -- Washington Irving
For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens. -- Sakyong Mipham
Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it. -- Joseph Addison
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. -- Robertson Davies
Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion. -- Martin Luther
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 their hands. "Mmmmmm mmm mmm," protested Jack. -- Frank Beddor
You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one. -- Ned Overend
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion -- Henry George
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest. -- Ludwig von Mises
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 a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time. -- Wilkie Collins
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government. -- Alexander Hamilton
A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade. -- William Stanley Jevons
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one. -- John Ruskin
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 Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production. -- Winston Churchill

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