Influence Quotes

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The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. — John C. Maxwell
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny. The great masters… — Piet Mondrian
Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately urgent… — Prince Charles
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems… — Nelson Mandela
No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound… — James E. Faust
Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind. "Christmas… — Gordon B. Hinckley
All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot… — Richard G. Scott
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If… — Boyd K. Packer
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so… — Margot Fonteyn
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. — John Ratzenberger
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
You know what's really frightening? You (Jon Stewart) actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary, but it's true. You've got stoned… — Bill O'Reilly
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations are… — Pope Benedict XVI
... what is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our… — John Stuart Mill
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after… — William Shakespeare
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. — Christopher Marlowe
Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than… — Edgar Cayce
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? — Walter Scott

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