Top 22 Exertion Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Exertion Quotes from famous people such as Maimonides, Robert Burns, Andrew W.K., Michelle Yeoh, Gerrit Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
Maimonides
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Robert Burns
I feel like professional athletes are the ones that deserve to be tired. I’m just partying, and there’s definitely physical exertion involved in that, but it also fuels you as you go.
Andrew W.K.
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ was not so much about physical exertion… it was much more graceful and contained than that.
Michelle Yeoh
Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers.
Gerrit Smith
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
Slow-twitch muscle fibers are mostly used for long endurance exercises like aerobics, swimming, and distance running. Fast-twitch muscle fibers are generally more powerful and are activated during maximum exertion exercises like heavy weightlifting and intensive, short bursts of sprints.
David Kirsch
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes
I usually suggest that people do their steady-state cardio on the days that they’re not with me; they really don’t need a cardio babysitter. When working with athletes, I try to pair the interval with the exertion patterns of their respective sport.
Gunnar Peterson
Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film like ‘Pink.’
Kirti Kulhari
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von Clausewitz
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
It’s a terrible thing to say, and I probably shouldn’t say it, but I’m a lazy person when it comes to physical exertion. I don’t like gyms unless I need to for a movie or a part or a show.
Priyanka Chopra
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
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion – between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
Hannah Kearney
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
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion.
Kristen Stewart
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Henry David Thoreau
Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.
William Godwin
I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
Hannah Kearney
As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
Major Taylor