Quotes of Strenuous - somelinesforyou

“ Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. ”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“ The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. ”

- Jean Paul Sartre

“ There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy. ”

- Robert Evans

“ Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ”

- Octavia Butler

“ Loss is the hardest thing... but it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy. ”

- Drew Barrymore

“ The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. ”

- Charles Peguy

“ A pilgrimage, after all, is a strenuous undertaking, one in which companionship and support may be pivotal. ”

- Julie Cameron

“ I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ Golf — a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ”

- Edwin P. Whipple

“ A strenuous soul hates cheap success. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch. ”

- Mary Kay Ash

“ Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort… ”

- Confucius

“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ The girls are trotted out twice during each floor show, do nothing more strenuous than shake an ankle, wriggle a hip or twitch a shoulder-and it has taken choreographer Douglas Coudy weeks to teach them to do that. ”

- Arthur Gelb

“ I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. ”

- Andre Bernard Buruch
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