Quotes About Exertion

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

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.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

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

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

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.

I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.

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.

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.

I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.

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

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.

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions.

Schlepping all of the equipment is the part I hate more than anything.

Neely Kate lowered her arm, her chest heaving from her exertion. "That man tried to steal my purse!" "You should have just let him have it. You could have gotten hurt." "He's the one who got hurt. I have three cans of Vienna sausages in here.

Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.

Dancing is a sweat job.

I am a sweater. I sweat making dinner and going to the bathroom and everything.

Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation.

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.

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

Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to