#exertions

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power. ↗

— Friedrich List

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Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ↗

— Ben Stein

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. ↗

— George Santayana

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Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers. ↗

— Theodore White

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