Exerts Quotes

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 our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

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

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

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

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in.

That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow.

Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity of Order and Harmony among them, who are embarkd in one common Cause, and mutually contending for all that Freeman sic hold dear. I am persuaded, if the Officers will but exert themselves, these Animosities, this Disorder, will in a great Measure subside, and nothing being more essential to the Service than that it should, I am hopeful nothing on their Parts will be wanting to effect it.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group.

If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

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 exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

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 but his own can teach.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

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

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor.

Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

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

Rochester: Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. Jane: I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world;

Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

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

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

There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.

We seem to love to dissect, organize and compartmentalize, and to exert unnatural order and control over what we perceive as wild, unpredictable and therefore dangerous.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's.

The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions.

I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful.

And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.

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.

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?