Influence Quotes
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Affluence means influence. (Quote by - Jack London)
I'm really happy, she's a great person. And she's a great influence on people around her. But I think that anything that has changed in my life is because of me. I've gone through it, and I've learned to deal with it and I've made the decision to move forward. (Quote by - Lindsay Lohan)
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound. (Quote by - Laura Linney)
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. (Quote by - Ovid)
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. (Quote by - Tom Morris)
How to win friends and influence people. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
I refuse to accept the idea that man can not influence the unfolding events that surround him. (Quote by - Martin Luther King)
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. (Quote by - Booker T Washington)
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bibesco)
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. (Quote by - Margot Asquith)
English culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music. (Quote by - Shaun Leane)
When I lived at home, I used to go out and not come back 'til three o'clock the next afternoon. I'm not so bad now, but I still like a party. I blame Bryan - he's a bad influence! (Quote by - Kian Egan)
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. (Quote by - Frances McCartney Fulke-Greville)
The two great evils to be avoided are cabal at home, amd influence from abroad. (Quote by - Pierce Butler)
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues. (Quote by - George Eliot)
One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know! (Quote by - Chris Frantz)
Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. (Quote by - Charles Simon Favart)
I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling. (Quote by - Gillian Anderson)
The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. (Quote by - Korean Proverb)
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. (Quote by - Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. (Quote by - Barbara Tuchman)
No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. (Quote by - Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton)
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I admire the relationship she had with John Lennon and hope I can be a similar influence to Tiger. (Quote by - Elin Nordegren)
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions. (Quote by - John Hancock)
It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence. (Quote by - Michael Ovitz)
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To lower good, and beauties less divine, Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline; But yet It turns, and points again to Thee. (Quote by - John Norris of Bemerton)
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. (Quote by - E M Forster)
My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I don't think it is really understood how good a player he actually is. He is one of those players who, as the conditions and situations got harder and more difficult, the better he became and I know I will miss his influence on the Australian team. (Quote by - Ricky Ponting)
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness (Quote by - David Moir)
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 (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
It still sounds great, as do most records by The Who. Pete Townshend's guitar sounds still influence everything i do. (Quote by - Paul Roberts)
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. (Quote by - B. F. Skinner)
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. (Quote by - Joan Welsh)
You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word. (Quote by - George MacDonald)
I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. (Quote by - George Eliot)
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish (Quote by - Edward Bach)
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person (Quote by - David Hume)
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. (Quote by - Dale Turner)
So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. (Quote by - Bible)
Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods. (Quote by - Homer)
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. (Quote by - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. (Quote by - J. S. Knox)
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. (Quote by - Richard Clark)
I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. (Quote by - Alexander Fleming)
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Plain truth will influence half a score of men at most in a nation, or an age, while mystery will lead millions by the nose. (Quote by - Viscount Henry St John Bolingbroke)
May the influence of this great church be found for Christ in every part of this world! (Quote by - Cortland Myers)
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. (Quote by - Bible)
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. (Quote by - Kenneth Blanchard)
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I'm half-Cuban - my mother was born in Cuba and came here as a teenager - so it's got a lot of Latin influence to it. It's pretty poppish. It's kind of more on the J-Lo side of things. (Quote by - Jamie-Lynn Sigler)
By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. (Quote by - Plato)
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. (Quote by - James Allen)
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north? (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
The future influences the present just as much as the past. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe; But turning, trembles too. (Quote by - Frances McCartney Fulke-Greville)
Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. (Quote by - Neil Bogart)
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The Gospel having spread itself into Persia, the pagan priests, who worshipped the sun, were greatly alarmed, and dreaded the loss of that influence they had hitherto maintained over the people's minds and properties (Quote by - John Foxe)
Being the President, we all know, is the most powerful of all the jobs that anyone can have, the influence and state of the nation being what it is right now. (Quote by - David Frum)
The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. (Quote by - John Dunning)
God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself. (Quote by - Matthew Barker)
