Influence Quotes

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.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies arou...

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

I am your opus.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it ...

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and fli...

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in oursel...

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in ...

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germani...

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intellig...

For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to m...

I don’t think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It’s not even p...

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in t...

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment tow...

Every line we succeed in publishing today - no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust i...

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised th...

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force,...

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every...

There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. " He was inter...

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry t...

Steve's head dropped and stared at his feet. After a weighty, uncomfortable pause, he issued a chall...

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television s...