Influence Quotes
3440 quotes by 2202 authors
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.
— Graham Collier
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Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.
— Marco Rubio
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A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies…
— Sheryl Crow
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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
— Bertrand Russell
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[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of…
— Nelson Mandela
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Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership…
— Phil Harding
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I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best…
— William Howard Taft
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to…
— Karl Marx
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He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
— Elbert Hubbard
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what…
— Charles Dickens
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Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Envy, my son, wears herself away, and droops like a lamb under the influence of the evil eye.
— Jacopo Sannazaro
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I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't…
— Jon Hamm
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The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods…
— Colin Ward
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