Influence Quotes

The forces that unite us are intrinsic and greater than the superimposed influences that keep us apart.

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

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.

Function influence but does not dictate form

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.

Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

In the theatre, every form once born is mortal; every form must be reconceived, and its new conception will bear the marks of all the influences that surround it.

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

We determine how much influence we'll have, when we decide how available we'll be.

No human influenced me to become vegan. The screaming, terrified, enslaved animals were the only influence needed.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

No man has any influence or power for good when angry.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Eating chocolate can have significant influences on mood, generally leading to an increase in pleasant feelings and a reduction in tension.

The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.

We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

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?