Influence Quotes - page 2

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. (George Bernard Shaw)
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. View quote
George W. Bush
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people. View quote
Bud Selig
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence. View quote
Chester A. Arthur
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. View quote
William Wordsworth
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. View quote
Scott Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. View quote
Henry Adams
Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence of them one by one. (Vitruvius)
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the influence of the sun. View quote
Vitruvius
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
However often we turn to it the Koran at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence.... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role. View quote
Robert Kagan
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. View quote
Franz Boas
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. View quote
Aldous Huxley
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture. (Minoru Yamasaki)
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights. View quote
Rene Cassin
As such people achieve influence within the organization, whenever there is a conflict between their own interest and the interest of the organization, their interests will win out. View quote
Robert Shea
But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe. View quote
Romano Prodi
The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg