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Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire. -- Samuel Johnson
USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. -- George Eliot
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. -- Richard Perle
Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge. -- Philip Zimbardo
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. -- Dean Koontz
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. -- Frances Wright
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls. -- Stanley Bing
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. -- Charles Horton Cooley
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
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. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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. -- Ed Asner
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it. -- Abdurrahman Wahid
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. -- Charles Babbage
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. -- William Ellery Channing
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. -- Zach Wamp
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. -- Emile M. Cioran
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. -- Angelina Grimke
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. -- Vince Lombardi
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind. -- Ivor Novello
For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. -- Max von Laue
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. -- Frances Wright
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. -- Jane Austen
Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one. -- Carne Ross
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. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Chris Webber
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 myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself. -- Drew Barrymore
Whatever power I exert is collegial. -- Katharine Graham
When one is serving his master, he should exert himself. -- Takeda Nobushige
Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited. -- Ian Bogost
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. -- Horace Mann
All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society. -- Alexander Crummell
Honesty, willingness to exert oneself, friendship - all these things shaped me too. -- Rafael Nadal
I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events. -- Helen Gahagan Douglas
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. -- Rufus Choate
Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received. -- Albert Einstein
A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it. -- Calvin Coolidge
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. -- Joseph Addison
The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed. -- Condoleezza Rice
It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always. -- Frederick Lenz
Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert. -- Edward Albee
Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies. -- Henry Fox Talbot
A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives and our political process. -- Jim McGovern
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. -- Ignacio Chapela
PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it. -- Ambrose Bierce
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. -- Sujata Massey
We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives. -- Li Keqiang
As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism. -- Che Guevara
I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role. -- Kim Campbell
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
That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers. -- Solon
If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer -- Voltaire
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. -- Hermann Hesse
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax. -- Nicholas Kristof
Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding influence? -- Leonard Read
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
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
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man! -- Alexander Hamilton
Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable. -- Guillermo del Toro
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 virtues. -- Edmund Burke
Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)... -- Thomas Stephen Szasz
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. -- William Vickrey
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. -- Samuel Richardson
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? -- George Washington
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. -- Lauren Willig
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. -- Mark Taimanov
Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment. -- Greg Hunt
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. -- Charles Stanley
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. -- Albert Einstein
Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony... -- Max Bill
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. -- Frederick Lewis Allen
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world. -- Martin Donovan
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. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony. -- Theodore E. Steinway
I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come. -- Brian Mulroney
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe. -- Vladimir Putin
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
If you want to get impressive increase, you need to get off the bed, lay demand and exert enough pressure as much as necessary to get the kind of increase we need -- Sunday Adelaja
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. -- Seth Godin
Nobody can truely become a leader, unless he has performed feats for God. It is only possible to ascend to spiritual heights in the Kingdom of God, if you fully exert yourself. -- Sunday Adelaja
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. -- Henry Rollins
Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think. -- Oliver DeMille
People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed. -- Michael Pollan
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. -- Jeanne DuPrau
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. -- Agnes Repplier
I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force. -- Thomas Jefferson
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 extent of living single thought by single thought. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate. -- George Eliot
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. -- William James
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. -- Anais Nin
Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers. -- Craig Ferguson
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 good will exert upon events in the political field. -- Albert Einstein
Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind. -- Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje
The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ. -- John Flavel
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. -- Plutarch
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 are particularly simply related to variations in these other factors. -- Ronald Fisher

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