best quotations about
Influence |
| 47 quotes | Visits: 1,796 |
Quotations
 | To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 11 likes |
 | It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 8 likes |
 | It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | Beware the influence of the military-industrial complex. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 7 likes |
 | I am what is around me. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 6 likes |
 | Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 6 likes |
 | I am a part of all that I have met. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 5 likes |
 | If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 4 likes |
 | I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes |
 | We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 4 likes |
 | Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head? — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 4 likes |
 | The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
 | Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
| Little things comfort us because little things distress us. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. — Thomas à Kempis, 1380-1471, German-Dutch monk & author 3 likes |
 | People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 3 likes |
| Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 2 likes |
 | We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast. — Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish writer & philosopher 2 likes |
| When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. |
 | A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. |
 | Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | Don’t expect the theater to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them. |
 | We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us. |
 | People know what they want because they know what other people want. |
 | If you have influence, at least pretend to ignore it. |
 | I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat. |
| A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. |
| Everything influences me, nothing changes me. |
 | The greatest egoists arouse the greatest devotion. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors. |
 | There is always in a book—even a badly written one—a phrase that smacks the reader in the face, as if it were waiting for him alone. |
 | It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. |
 | In order to move others deeply, we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. |
 | A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. |
 | When a hot woman meets a hermit, one of them is going to change. |
Quotes in Verse
 | They tried to bury me but they didn't know I was a seed. — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 25 likes |
Proverbs
 | One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. 5 likes |
 | If the imam farts, the community will shit. 3 likes |
