Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

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 reveals the heavenly lights.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.

Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

Even with Extreme, I don't think you have a choice but to sort of have somewhat of an influence of the times.

Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Even if parties associated with right wing populism don't win, they push other parties, the centrist parties, towards their position. So they do have an influence even if they're not in power.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it. And the biological ensembles are almost certainly, even the most modest ones, in the thousands of species. We don't know what's involved in the models - not even the beginnings. And yet we're trying to make a sustainable world, which has to include the natural world. The human species is triumphant, but it's got to get a grip. It's got to come to understand what's happened, why we're this way and what we're doing.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence, that will tell on the immortal interests of souls around you. Are you asleep, while your conduct is exerting such an influence?

Every single day in a marriage, we influence each other. It is a matter of am I going to have a positive influence or a negative influence?

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

Every single one of us has the unique opportunity to create awareness and influence change

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

EVOLUTIONARIES is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision ofthe future ... and also our role in consciously participating in it.

Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.

Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment.

Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

For better or worse, the United States enjoys the lion's share of public and media attention. We influence much of the conversation on social and public media by sheer volume.