Influence Quotes

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. (Henry Adams)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. View quote
Mark Twain
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. View quote
George Eliot
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. View quote
Spike Milligan
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. View quote
Bruce Lee
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. View quote
Edmund Burke
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. View quote
E. M. Forster
The only real influence I've ever had was myself. View quote
Edward Hopper
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. (Livy)
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. View quote
Joseph Addison
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. View quote
Daniel Boone
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye. View quote
Jacopo Sannazaro
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. View quote
Salvador Dalí
A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
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)
I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country. View quote
Rick Santorum
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable. View quote
Alija Izetbegović
Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time. View quote
V. S. Pritchett