influence quotes

• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. (Joseph Addison) [day/influence]
• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. (Henry Ward Beecher) [influence/evil]
• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. ( Napoleon I) [influence/vanity]
• Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement. ( Napoleon I) [music/influence/give]
• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. (Salvador Dali) [influence]
• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. (Charles Dickens) [willpower/influence/influence/character]
• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual? (Albert Einstein) [life/influence]
• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. (George Eliot) [influence/human]
• Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [influence/wish]
• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [influence/human]
• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. (Eric Hoffer) [influence]
• You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time. (John Knox) [influence/time]
• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [food/influence/condition/men]
• Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never. (Bertrand Russell) [influence]
• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. (George Bernard Shaw) [people/influence/willpower/abnormal]
• To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. (Henry David Thoreau) [more/time/influence/goodwill]
• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. (Booker T. Washington) [power/influence/high/life]
• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. (George Washington) [enjoyment/influence/government/trust]
• Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. (Simone Weil) [imagination/life/influence/needs]
• I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands. (Debbie Harry) [think/influence/more/eclectic]
• I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person. (Catherine Bell) [think/influence/life]
• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. (David Soul) [influence/science/follow]
• The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language. (Dominic Chianese) [radio/influence/language]
• If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger. (Kevin Richardson) [influence/parents]
• I love my mother, man. Are you crazy? I can't be a bad influence on anybody! (Mark Wahlberg) [love/mother/influence]
• Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television. (Val Kilmer) [television/influence/culture/culture]
• “I always loved Bette Davis-she's probably my very favorite. She had an influence on me in that I felt I knew what she was thinking. She was thinking the things she wanted me to know about. When you're in extreme close-up, all you have to do is think, and the thoughts will read.” (Donna Mills) [influence/thinking/thinking/think]
• Researchers can influence disease and lifespan in laboratory rodents simply by adjusting stress in their environment. (Marilu Henner) [influence/disease/stress]
• “I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.” (Gillian Anderson) [love/women/influence]
• I don't think I have that much of a stylistic influence, other than just embracing who you are and not worrying too much about the formalities in things. I LIKE casual. (Deana Carter) [think/influence]
• Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine! (Peter Cushing) [youth/fear/influence/willpower]

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