Top 100 Good Influence Quotes
#1. I can't. I'm not a good influence on him. I keep getting him shot. I swear too much, I don't brush my teeth every time I go to bed, and I never remember to eat a balanced breakfast. You want someone with culture. Poise. A lack of gunfire.
-Toby
Seanan McGuire
#2. So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
Kim Dae-jung
#3. Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.
Taeyang
#5. I don't think grandma's a very good influence on us.
Richard Peck
#6. Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.
Nhat Hanh
#7. Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Jack Kingston
#8. Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.
Helen Reddy
#9. There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view.
Oscar Wilde
#10. The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.
Kedar Joshi
#12. I hope I work effectively, but I never feel I have exhausted what I should be doing ... I believe we have a responsibility to be a good influence on others.
Thomas S. Monson
#13. If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. [Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
Desiderius Erasmus
#15. You'd think an angel who hung around with employees of evil would be a good influence, but at times, he seemed worse than we were.
Richelle Mead
#16. Not even Dee's good influence could keep me from trying to hurt my parents the way they hurt me. At least that's what my court-appointed therapist thinks, and I hate to admit that she's probably right.
I also hate to admit that she's court-appointed.
Emery Lord
#17. He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Bruce Lee
#20. No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Hosea Ballou
#21. Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
William Wordsworth
#22. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.
Frederic Farrar
#23. In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
Pat Boone
#24. The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.
Anthony Trollope
#25. My principles, and those always received by the republicans, do not admit to removing any person from office merely for a difference of political opinion. Malversations in office, and the exerting of official influence to control the freedom of election are good causes for removal.
Thomas Jefferson
#26. Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not'
In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#27. we sometimes lose sight of the fact that the mind, brain, and body all influence one another. In addition to feeling good when you exercise, you feel good about yourself,
John J. Ratey
#28. This, however, is sure: nothing is really lost. Any influence for good, no matter how ephemeral, makes its mark: it helps to leaven the loaf of evil: it leaves a loophole, albeit a small one, for a future escape from bondage.
Horace Annesley Vachell
#29. The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
Xavier Becerra
#30. 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
#31. Obviously, the only reason I'm where I am is because God has gifted me and He has seen fit to put me where I am. I have to honor that by using my influence and my status on the team and in the game of baseball for good and to His purpose.
Lance Berkman
#32. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
#33. But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
Julian Coolidge
#34. We can influence people for bad or good.
Johnny Hunt
#35. Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#36. The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Sydney, Lady Morgan
#37. Keep this little canvas, it is a promise for the future. When I say 'keep this canvas,' I mean for the influence on yourself. When one does a good thing, it's well to keep it to show how foolish we are at other times.
Charles Webster Hawthorne
#38. The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas Sydenham
#39. As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.
Wilferd Peterson
#40. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.
Norris B. Finlayson
#41. Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#44. You have a wonderful influence. Let it be for good, not for evil.
Oscar Wilde
#45. When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
Tawni O'Dell
#46. All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
Albert Einstein
#47. Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret
a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.
Richie Norton
#48. Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
Plato
#49. Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
Victoria Osteen
#50. It is not enough to take good decisions and make good choices. It is necessary to take heed and comply with whatever you plan and that can only happen by the influence of the Lord God, the giver of your dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. It is the duty of a Saint of God to gain all the influence he can on this earth, and to use every particle of that influence to do good.
Brigham Young
#52. I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment
Dorothy Arzner
#53. A dog without influence or private means, if he is to make his way in the world, must have either good looks or amiability.
P.G. Wodehouse
#54. The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
Olivier Theyskens
#55. Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
Robert Orben
#56. Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Stephen Covey
#57. You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.
Richard Ford
#58. If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
Franz Grillparzer
#59. The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.
Mario Monti
#60. When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence for good on their children,
Julie B. Beck
#61. There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
James E. Faust
#62. There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance or worth.
Edward Young
#63. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#64. The force of originality "that made Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us, without his being the less felt as of his period, contemporary - obviously a living poet in the most important sense." In "The Good-Morrow" Leavis said that
John Donne
#65. I do not permit affection, or lack thereof, to influence my actions. There is good, and there is evil. The good must be protected; the evil eradicated. I have shown you the triumph of evil, as a caution.
Neil Gaiman
#66. Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#67. A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
Charles Caleb Colton
#69. You young men need to know that you can hardly achieve your highest potential without the influence of a good women, particularly you mother, and in a few years, a good wife.
Russell M. Nelson
#71. In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.
Ari Marcopoulos
#72. As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
Rachel Cusk
#73. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
#74. Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.
Kathleen Norris
#75. Even if I never registered my YouTube channel with the intention of being a role model, if I am that for somebody, I can't help it. So I need to be conscious of it and realize that influence can be used for good or bad, and just try to do my best.
Tyler Oakley
#76. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#77. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
Bernadette Devlin
#78. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
C.S. Lewis
#79. If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.
Richard Rohr
#80. Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.
Billy Graham
#81. I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.
Julius Erving
#82. It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.
Ofra Strauss
#83. To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
Michael Bassey
#84. What is the good of influence if one can only use it on strangers?
Chris Cleave
#85. There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.
Charlie Rose
#86. It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence.
Diana Gabaldon
#87. The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
Hannah Arendt
#88. The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes.
Richard H. Thaler
#89. Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
J.G. Holland
#90. Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil
the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
William George Jordan
#91. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
#92. My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy - but with such an ear for melody, it was hard not to get pulled into it and become a fanatic.
Corey Taylor
#93. Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.
Conrad Aiken
#94. I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .
Huey Newton
#95. For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,
he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S.E. Hinton
#97. The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.
Karl Popper
#98. Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Bertrand Russell
#99. There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
Ivor Novello
