Motivational Quotes

Influence

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Influence

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Einstein, Albert

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Marden, Orison Swett

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

Proverb, Italian

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Washington, Booker T.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Carlyle, Thomas

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Hubbard, Elbert

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Proverb, Korean

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

Locke, John

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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Morris, Tom

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One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Romer, Frank

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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Brokaw, Tom

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

Socrates

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Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.

Dewar, Canon Lindsay

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Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Pascal, Blaise

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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

Eliot, T. S.

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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Euripides

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Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

Young, Andrew

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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

George, Henry

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A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

Hightower, Cullen

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What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

Proverb, German

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Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Kempis, Thomas

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Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Welsh, Joan

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There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Rohn, Jim

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The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.

Bible

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Dali, Salvador

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Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

Proverb, American

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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

Rohn, Jim

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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Thoreau, Henry David