Quotes About Exertion

Work is what horses die of

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

The more we connect with a bigger perspective, the more we connect with energetic joy. Exertion is touching in to our appetite for enlightenment. It allows us to act, to give, to work appreciatively with whatever comes our way.

Hark, how hard he fetches breath.

Just as a muscle grows tired from exertion, the capacity for self-regulation becomes depleted after it is used. Also like a muscle, the capacity for self-regulation appears to grow stronger through regular exercise (after it recovers from the initial fatigue).

Implicit in sloth is the unwillingness to exert oneself in the performance of duty because of the sacrifice and effort required.

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

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

threefold purity—no big deal about the doer, no big deal about the action, no big deal about the result. This joyful exertion is rooted in no expectation, no ambition, no hope of fruition.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

It was a jaw cracking, lung-bursting yawn that lasted almost a minute.

Sometimes if I get too aggressive, I get real winded.

The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life's major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life's most luxurious rewards.

It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. You could have exerted yourself a bit, you know. One brief meeting between the two of us…one smile from you…was all the encouragement I would have needed to jump on you like a grouse on laurel.

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

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.

The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own and is not shared with the body.

Knowledge is prior to any particular knowledge, and exists not in the previous state of the individual, but of the race. It is potential, not actual, and can only be appropriated by strenuous exertion.

She smelled of cinnamon and honey and the clean sweat of exertion, with an undertone of baby-scent, that paradoxical smell composed of spit-up milk, soft feces, and the ultimate cleanliness of fresh, smooth skin.