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exertion
«Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.»
Author: Anna Pavlova
(Dancer)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
dint, exertion, initiative, initiatives, The Initiative
«The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion»
Author: Henry George
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
Action The, exertion, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, fundamental principle, gratify, gravitation, human action, Laws of physics, law of gravitation, physics, political economy
«What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men»
Author: Samuel Warren
| About:
Difficulty,
Effort,
Words
| Keywords:
accomplishing, bugbear, bugbears, exertion, indicating, requisite, stimuli, stimulus
«The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind»
Author: Thomas Mellon
| Keywords:
acquisition, degenerate, denial, descendant, descendants, exertion, freed, self-denial, sooner or later, The Descendants, The Normal
«The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
apprentice, apprentices, commencement, embodiment, exertion, fable, farthing, farthings, in return, maximum, newest, prizes, prostitute, sale, self-indulgence, tempter, The Embodiment, the Tempter, The Victim, uttermost
«The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Excellence,
Happiness
| Keywords:
amusement, consist, exertion, Happy Life
