Influence Quotes
3440 quotes by 2293 authors
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The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one…
— Gamal Abdel Nasser
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The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.
— John Harvey Kellogg
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the…
— Booker T. Washington
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his…
— Sylvia Plath
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The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the…
— John Dewey
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If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not…
— Aristotle
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A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
— Don Shula
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Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
— L. Tom Perry
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The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to…
— Wayne Dyer
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries…
— Adolf Hitler
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence…
— Rose Kennedy
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A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every act, every response,…
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
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War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.
— Charles Sumner
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If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave…
— John Bartholomew Gough
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
— Maya Angelou
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Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft…
— Susan Hill
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