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Tag Name "Exertion" (104)

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Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?
George Washington
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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
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith
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The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise Pascal
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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
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Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
Carl von Clausewitz
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From exertion come wisdom and purity from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
Henry David Thoreau
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In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
Charles de Gaulle
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property if we have property, we must have its rights if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
James F. Cooper
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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
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A woman is seldom roused to great and courageous exertion but when something most dear to her is in immediate danger.
Joanna Baillie
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Be mild and firm. Apply your best exertions to put us in a proper posture of defense.
Edward Rutledge
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Man is forever the same the same under every form, in all situations and relations that admit of free and unrestrained exertion. The same regard which you have for yourself, you have for others, for nature, for the invisible ... which you call God.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.
John Adams
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In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: All animals undergo perpetual transformations which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.
Erasmus Darwin
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It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.
Joseph de Maistre
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Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.
Fran Lebowitz
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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
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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
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We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
Frederick Douglass
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The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.
Abraham Lincoln
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