Quotes about influence

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Bible

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.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Tom Brokaw

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.

— Thomas Carlyle

A community is like the ones who govern it.

— Marcus T. Cicero

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

— Salvador Dali

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.

— Canon Lindsay Dewar

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.

— Albert Einstein

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

— George Eliot

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

— T. S. Eliot

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Euripides

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.

— Henry George

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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.

— Thomas H. Huxley

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

— Carl Jung

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

— Thomas Kempis

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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

— John Locke

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

— Iain Macleod

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Tom Morris

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

— Blaise Pascal

Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

— American Proverb

What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

— German Proverb

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

— Italian Proverb

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

— Korean Proverb

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.

— Jean Paul Richter

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

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Frank Romer

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

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

— Socrates

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

— Booker T. Washington

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

— Joan Welsh

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

— Andrew Young

We often wrestle ourselves, because we so easily submit to other people's influence.

— A. Brandon Trean