Quotes of: Exertion Keyword

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

Gerrit Smith

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage

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

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

George Eliot

Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.

Lord Melbourne

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mary Wollstonecraft

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

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

B. C. Forbes

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Gerard Debreu

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

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Ed Asner

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Benjamin F. Wade

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

The Stones of Venice

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

Clara Schumann

The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect.

Henry Knox

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Friedrich List

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Blaise Pascal

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

John Thorn

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

Stanley Bing