Influential Living Quotes

#1. Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

John Cornwell

#2. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#3. Love arrives without practical deliberations in its suitcase.

Joshua Emmet

#4. Gratitude is a powerful lens which, if we gaze through thoughtfully, we can come to a place where we are better able to understand ourselves.

Jacq Pollock

#5. People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

Claire Danes

#6. You can disappear inside of yourself and become an empty shell with depression in mind. It's that feeling of being invisible. Sometimes when I wake up I don't feel like my head is attached to my body - there's nothing.

Elena Tonra

#7. My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'

Tony Oller

#8. Her light was so brilliant it burned my guilty shadow onto the floor, but I was not blinded.

Michael Hibbard

#9. Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

Harry Lorayne

#10. The Saint did not seem to be aware that he was multiplying miracles with an easy grace that would have made a Grand Lama look like a third-rate three-card man.

Leslie Charteris

#11. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Wayne Dyer

#12. Be a history maker

Sunday Adelaja

#13. The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.

Michael O'Leary

#14. Because the Western civilization is dominated by dualistic thinking, holistic scientists and philosophers don't get the recognition they deserve.

Satish Kumar

#15. It was like a sickness.
It was like the uncontrollable urge
to eat dirt.

Cynthia Lowen

#16. He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. You do not need to seek freedom in a different land, for it exists with your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#18. So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

Baba Kalyani