Definition of Exert

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Definition of Exert

Exert

To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.

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Exert Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.
Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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

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

Exert Translations

exert in Afrikaans is beoefen
exert in Dutch is betrachten, beoefenen
exert in Italian is adoperare
exert in Spanish is usar de, ejercer, utilizar

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