Exert Quotes

151 quotes by 126 authors

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? — Clara Schumann
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others -… — Frances Wright
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. — Philip Zimbardo
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and… — Charlotte Bronte
Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress — Steve Grand
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way… — Giovanni Boccaccio
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other -… — Albert Einstein
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly… — Adam Smith
Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather,… — Milton Friedman
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest… — Albert Einstein
I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try… — Anais Nin
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them. Art… — Stephen Fry
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
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… — Jeanne DuPrau
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by. — George Eliot
Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among… — Jon Krakauer

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