Top 186 Exertion Quotes & Sayings

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.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

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.

Souls cannot be saved without exertion.

I feel like professional athletes are the ones that deserve to be tired. I'm just partying, and there's definitely physical exertion involved in that, but it also fuels you as you go.

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.

A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

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.

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.

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.

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

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.

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.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

If you have a pack establishing dominance in an area that involves such physical exertion, you're sucking the life out of the opposition.

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.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

In belief lies the secret of all valuable exertion.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent

From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.

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.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

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.

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.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

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.

We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

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.

One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.