Influences Quotes

557 Influences quotes by 480 unique authors

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being. — Lord Acton
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness… — Henry David Thoreau
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts… — Rebecca Harding Davis
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 interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom. — Matt Ridley
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
Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not. — William R. Bradford
Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions… — Rod Carew
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences. — Gordon Waller
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the… — Franz Cumont
Today we no longer ask what really goes on in an atom; we ask what is likely to be observed-and with what likelihood-when we subject… — Otto Robert Frisch
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific… — Unknown Author
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... — Immanuel Kant
One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child. — Rosemary M. Wixom
Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the… — Stanislav Grof
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical.… — Corinne Heline
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in… — Henry George
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith) — Joe Gibbs
A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. — William Shakespeare
People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get… — Corey Taylor
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the… — Unknown Author

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