Quotes About Influence

#1. I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government - would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities.

Martin Van Buren

#2. Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

James Darren

#3. I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

Ronnie Montrose

#4. If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God's truth that will
overcome worldly influence.

Billy Graham

#5. Sisters, you are each like the lioness at the gate. This means that there has to be some prioritizing. I was taught years ago that when our priorities are out of order, we lose power. If we need power and influence to carry out our mission, then our priorities have to be straight.

Julie B. Beck

#6. From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Confucius

#7. Tennessee Williams was so adept at portraying characters who are both fallible and vulnerable. Women were a huge influence in his life, his mother and sister in particular.

Kim Cattrall

#8. The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William Galston

#9. the quality of classroom practice that a child encounters has unmatched potential with respect to influencing student learning and achievement. What teachers are doing in classes with students on a daily basis has the greatest potential to influence the academic outcome for students,

Steven Katz

#10. Love and knwoledge have one thing in common; both live on giving and sharing, more you share more it will be and make impacts over impacts, influence one to another. Love will not get lesser by giving, knowledge too..

Baris Gencel

#11. If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U.K. Christians are illiberal, too.

Richard Dawkins

#12. But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

Ron Silver

#13. We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

#14. the work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman's love behind nearly every one of them.

Napoleon Hill

#15. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence.

Katherine Reay

#16. In flew influence, and out fluttered humility. Be like a butterfly and a flower - beautiful and sought after, yet unassuming and gentle.

Jarod Kintz

#17. Through positive civil actions, the church can influence the society.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

Ossian Everett Mills

#19. [The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#20. It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Bill Hybels

#21. In my creative life, David Bowie is definitely an enormous influence on me, being one of rock's greatest shapeshifters.

Scott Weiland

#22. Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it's hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than diamonds, more durable than political influence.

Nick Paumgarten

#23. An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

John Henry Newman

#24. People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

John C. Maxwell

#25. the three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous.

Dalai Lama XIV

#26. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

#27. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

Oscar Wilde

#28. I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Tori Amos

#29. The quality of your relationships and the role they play in your life will influence who you will become.

Mensah Oteh

#30. My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Bolton

#31. You cannot force commitment, what you can do ... You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

Peter M. Senge

#32. If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits.

Fred DeLuca

#33. Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence of surging emotions (and not necessarily negative ones) we sometimes lose concentration and stop objectively evaluating the events that are taking place on the board.

Mark Dvoretsky

#34. Let beauty influence the architecture of thought

Matthew Goff

#35. I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

Matt Damon

#36. Mantovani was a great influence on me.

Brian May

#37. I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Kevin Vanhoozer

#38. The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Samuel Johnson

#39. Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#40. But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Joan Robinson

#41. Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Max Weber

#42. If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.

Patti Smith

#43. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#44. It is often the simple daily practices that influence our lives in dramatic ways.

Alaric Hutchinson

#45. In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#46. Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.

William Landay

#47. Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Paul C. Nagel

#48. The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#49. The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence?

Johnny Hunt

#50. Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Horace

#51. That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

Shelby Lynne

#52. My personality has not once altered under outside influence." "Then I'm genuinely appalled, and your childhood nannies have my intense sympathy. You've got a bit of a nerve, don't you think, accusing other people of vanity? You make Mr. Darcy look like the poster child for low self-esteem.

Lucy Parker

#53. I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here.

Pat Mora

#54. Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#55. Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#56. The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

John C. Maxwell

#57. Saudi Arabia has supported Wahhabi madrasas in poor countries in Africa and Asia, exporting extremism and intolerance. Saudi Arabia also exports instability with its brutal war in Yemen, intended to check what it sees as Iranian influence.

Nicholas Kristof

#58. Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.

Wang Jianlin

#59. David Cameron has a lot of credibility and influence.

Mark Rutte

#60. My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.

Talib Kweli

#61. Through sacred things we can influence and be influenced by the transcendental.

Roger Scruton

#62. I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

Sherman Kent

#63. She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

Clare Boylan

#64. Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests.

Ben Carson

#65. There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

John F. Kennedy

#66. I'm a huge Bob Hope fan, up until about the late '50s. I've seen so many of his movies up until then, and they're a big influence on me and a big influence on Woody Allen, who is basically just ripping off Bob Hope for his first five or six movies.

Scott Aukerman

#67. God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

Ellen G. White

#68. It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

Charles Dickens

#69. Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Richard Mentor Johnson

#70. Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Eric Hoffer

#72. Spiritual fathers have influence over the lives of individuals. Patriarchs have influence over families. The devil has been able to destroy families because there is a lack of spiritual fathers and patriarchs.

Sherry K. White

#73. If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.

Seth Godin

#74. If we inspire others, they would accept our influence and they would remember it for their whole lives.

Saaif Alam

#75. No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another.

George Eliot

#76. I have no reason to influence people. I just want to have it all for myself. I just want someone to pat me on the back. (laugh) It's crazy. It seems just completely ridiculous. I don't know why. I mean, three years ago, I wouldn't be able to influence my dog to walk.

Robert Pattinson

#77. I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

Arsene Wenger

#78. It's not the length of man's life that establishes his importance and influence, in fact, the length of a man's life has very little to do with it's impact.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#79. What I fear from these reports is that the prevalent use of foul language has become an acceptable pattern in the schools, probably due in large part to the influence of TV and the general permissiveness in our society.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#80. As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health.

Leah Borski

#81. It's never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#82. By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.

Denis Waitley

#83. I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#84. Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life.

John Patrick Hickey

#85. When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

Stephen Covey

#86. Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

Jose Andres

#87. I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

Katy B

#88. The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

Alva Myrdal

#89. With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

Ken Adam

#90. While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.

Ian Gardner

#91. Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

Mark Mason

#92. Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Patrick Geddes

#93. We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

Irakli Okruashvili

#94. A life lived as variously as Roger's, and evoked in writing as powerful as his, means that even after death his influence continues to flow outwards. Green Man-like, he appears in unexpected places, speaking in leaves.

Robert Macfarlane

#95. My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but of the best part of my taste for literature.

John Ruskin

#96. I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

Debbie Harry

#97. Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

Chris Matakas

#98. Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

Billy Graham

#99. One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people to be active or not" Lightfoot says. "You can have a predisposition to be a couch potato

David Epstein

#100. I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony ...

Max Bill