Influence Quotes

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

Henry Ward Beecher

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Galatians

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

Ninon de l'Enclos

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

Pascal

Thou wert my guide philosopher and friend.

The mind is constantly open to repetitive influences.

Influence is independent of numbers. Influencing positive change in one person is still influence.

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Avoid letting outside influences have a chance to affect your thoughts.

Satanic blindness comes from the influence of human teachers who teach from head knowledge and not heart knowledge combined.

Influence is like the lottery, you have to be in it to win it

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process.

Auliq-Ice

These were lobbyists—many of them compensated quite handsomely not to react as human beings.

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.

Charlotte Brontë

Without the participation of one fifth of the global population, without the endorsement of the world's second-largest economy, without the political will and security guarantee of this emerging power, international institutions and norms will be irrelevant and the legitimacy and credibility of their resolutions and arrangements will fall short of promise.

...but to be a connectworker, one must have an overall positive influence on people, and Victor has really made the switch.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

Bertrand Russell

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

David Halberstam

The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section flaunts academic achievements to make up for shortfalls in intelligence. The other asserts intelligence to camouflage deficiencies in academic excellence. In short, our intellectuals are torn by the dilemma whether they ought to carry their brains in their mouths, or mouths in their brains.

Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Tom Waits

In my experience, influence is power.

Orson Scott Card

We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

Never make fun of people who are different...unless they have more money, power and influence. Then you must.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

Walter Isaacson

If we do not question well then those who follow behind will almost certainly question badly. And if we are not confidently proclaiming the shape of our faith, then our faith will be of little use to those who desperately need it.

Matthew Lee Anderson

Serving people is the best way to earn influence.

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

Stop looking for the biggest crowd, and start looking for the right crowd.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Alain de Botton

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

...you influenced me, in a way in which no one else did.

Michael Kelahan

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to remain.I believe that this wise and blessed frame of mind would have continued with me, had it not been for the unsolicited and uncharitable remarks obtruded upon me by my professional friends who visited the rooms. But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Herman Melville

Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.

Timothy J. Keller

Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be like, and he took it for granted that Mme. Garnet corresponded to his conception. The curious thing was that he managed to impress his idea upon Cressida herself. She began to see herself as he saw her, to try to be like the notion of her that he carried everywhere in that pointed head of his. She was exalted quite beyond herself. Things that had been chilled under the grind came to life in her that winter, with the breath of Bouchalka’s adoration. Then, if ever in her life, she heard the bird sing on the branch outside her window; and she wished she were younger, lovelier, freer. She wished there were no Poppas, no Horace, no Garnets. She longed to be only the bewitching creature Bouchalka imagined her.

Our own way is what our heart wants, and do not let others influence us.

Psychology of small things rules.

Jesus was sent to love, so He loved and through this example we ourselves should exemplify love also.

Pauline Seaport

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

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

Patrick O'Brian

Don't let others influence your life... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self.... That's lesson for self... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life...

Debolina Bhawal

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

The great actors always play themselves.

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

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

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

Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.

David R. Stoddart

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

John R. Dallas Jr.

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

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

Orson Scott Card

Steve's sales pitch on the NeXT operating system was dazzling," according to Amelio. " He praised the virtues and strengths as though he were describing a performance of Oliver as Macbeth.

Walter Isaacson

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend.

Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

Pastor Adelaja Sunday

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.

Pastor Adelaja Sunday

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

Pastor Adelaja Sunday

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