Top 270 Exert Quotes & Sayings

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.

Tal's combinations often exert a sort of paralysing influence on the opponent's play. It would seem that the element of surprise plays a big part in this.

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

You can't get by at any level if you can't exert yourself physically or keep up with the demands.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

We want to exert pressure on wealthy people.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

The people who are writing online and the people in my genre of creative non-fiction exert a great deal more freedom that journalists are allowed to exert in their day-to-day work.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves.

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.

Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks and on stock markets, the chances for the West to exert influence on Russia are quite low. I doubt that Western leaders are willing to exert pressure. I would not exclude an intervention in case of a crisis.

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.

Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

The supply-side effect of a restrictive monetary policy is likely to be perverse, in that high interest rates enter into costs and thus exert inflationary pressure.

It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.