Exert Quotes

151 quotes by 129 authors

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may… — Jane Austen
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… — Charles Babbage
There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by… — Drew Barrymore
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience… — William Ellery Channing
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to… — Emile M. Cioran
One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of… — Takeda Nobushige
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul. — Wassily Kandinsky
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those… — Nelson Mandela
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that… — Eleanor Roosevelt
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their… — Edmund Burke
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects… — Ronald Fisher
You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the… — Michael Faraday
Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at… — Thomas Jefferson
However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power… — Stephen R. Donaldson
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation,… — Max Bill
The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind...It… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this… — Vince Lombardi

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