#exertion

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#being #ennobled #exertions #how #obtained

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

#cannot #depends #dint #except #exertion

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 E. Price

#beyond #budget #capacity #challenges #congress

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#case #demands #dramatic #every #exertion

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

#depends #exertions #girl #his #how

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

#alone #bad #better #everything #exertions

That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my body seemed almost to shut itself down, to scream that what was happening was just too much. ↗

— Diet Eman

#breakdown #exertion #limits #diet

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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

#body #brings #circumstances #confesses #does