Influence Quotes · Page 31

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

— Chester A. Arthur

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

— Simon Sinek

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

— Erich Fromm

We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.

— Dylan Taylor

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.

— Mac Anderson

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

— Nicole Miller

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

— Madeleine Albright

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence…

— Stephen Covey

Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do…

— Leo Tolstoy

What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave…

— Richard Dawkins

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start…

— Antonia Fraser

Make your influence a good one. Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching,…

— Lindsey Stirling

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong…

— Wesley Snipes

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be…

— Tom Wigley

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied;…

— James Madison

I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence…

— Gordon S. Wood

They wouldn’t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no…

— Jennifer Weiner

It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against…

— George Q. Cannon

As an undergraduate, I took two writing workshops taught by Elizabeth Hardwick. She was certainly a major influence, though more as a…

— Sigrid Nunez

The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them,…

— Jim Jarmusch

The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact…

— Gisele Freund

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth…

— Alister E. McGrath

It's not just about being here, it's about leaving the world a better place because I was here.

— Jordan Blake Michiels

We don't stop Russia or any other country from trying to influence public debate in the United States on any issue.

— Tom Malinowski

The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.

— G. Campbell Morgan

Purpose is to touch the life and hearts of others without stepping on others!

— Bobby Compton

“Most people don't accept that they are an influence either improving or damaging others.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A kind word from a stranger, or unexpected encouragement from a friend, can make all the difference in the world.

— Senora Roy

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family…

— Kristin Armstrong

“By not stepping into your greatness, you are letting down everyone around you whom you can inspire, touch, or influence.”

— Amber Hurdle

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

— Odilon Redon

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

— Old Tom Morris

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on…

— Anonymous

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Influence: It takes an influential leader to excellently raise up leaders of influence.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mothers have a huge influence on how their daughters view themselves and how they treat their bodies.

— Coco Rocha

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is like a fingerprint that can't be changed so make the best impression with it.

— Anonymous