Quotes about influence

"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on influence
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"He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."

Beecher, Henry Ward on influence   

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

Beecher, Henry Ward on influence   

"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."

Beecher, Henry Ward on influence   

"See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way."

Bible on influence   

"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."

Borges, Jorge Luis on influence   

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."

Brokaw, Tom on influence
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."

Carlyle, Thomas on influence   

"A community is like the ones who govern it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on influence   

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

Dali, Salvador on influence
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"Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away."

Dewar, Canon Lindsay on influence
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"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."

Einstein, Albert on influence   

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

Eliot, George on influence
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"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."

Eliot, T. S. on influence   

"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence   

"The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence
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"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on influence   

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"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."

Euripides on influence   

"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."

George, Henry on influence   

"A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success."

Hightower, Cullen on influence   

"It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence."

Hoffer, Eric on influence   

"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."

Hubbard, Elbert on influence   

"We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it."

Huxley, Thomas H. on influence   

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."

Jung, Carl on influence   

"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."

Kempis, Thomas on influence
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"In our society a man is known by the company he owns."

Lieberman, Gerald F. on influence   

"We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us."

Locke, John on influence
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"The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation."

Macleod, Iain on influence
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"The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor."

Marden, Orison Swett on influence   

"Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great."

Morris, Tom on influence
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"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble."

Pascal, Blaise on influence   

"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
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"What little Jack does not learn, big John will never."

Proverb, German on influence   

"The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp."

Proverb, Italian on influence
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"Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."

Proverb, Korean on influence
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"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."

Richter, Jean Paul on influence   

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"There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives."

Rohn, Jim on influence   

"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on influence
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"People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice."

Romer, Frank on influence   

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on influence