Influential Quotes

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to… — Walter Bagehot
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even… — Scott Adams
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. — George Ade
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe… — Robert Bork
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope… — Dale Carnegie
Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. — Noam Chomsky
As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.… — Albert Einstein
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the… — Michael Eric Dyson
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential politicians or a government agency… — Charles Koch
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their… — Amory Lovins
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements. — Robert Foster Bennett
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that… — James Madison
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace… — George Orwell
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in… — Alexander Hamilton

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