Influence Quotes

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, so...

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolb...

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m ...

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more th...

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so pow...

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are ...

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, wheth...

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the i...

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remo...

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by ro...

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. ...

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced...

Secularism drew a radical distinction between public and private life, in which religion, in any tra...

Everybody says that I have a lot of power. But what does that power consist of?... Can I influence g...

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of exist...

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels s...

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers,...

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. ...

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Othe...

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you ...

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.

I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

Country music in the mid-'90s was a big influence on my career, and I played all the songs that are ...

Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, accordi...

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youL...

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on t...

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually...

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefor...

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part o...

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recen...

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they o...

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all the...

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Y...

Women work a good many miracles and I have a persuasion that they may preform even that of raising t...

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and lis...

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but b...

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced,...

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either am...

Nobody should be whipped. Remember that, once and for all. Neither man nor animal can be influenced ...

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property,...

Never tell a child that something it’s too hard

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished ...

On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reac...

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the infl...

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or s...

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, ...

She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new...

They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.

In my experience, influence is power.

The have influence, but no power.""In my experience, influence is power.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it...

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own s...

Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts,...

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in ...

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not en...

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just th...

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well...

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see ...

A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peo...

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about ...

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up fo...

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other...

Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did ...

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

All of my work is influenced by fairy tales, and I hope my work shows Hans Christian Anderson's infl...

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people i...

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real ne...

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right qu...

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The kind of people we have in Washington only trust what they think they own.