Quotessence
Home / Topics / Influence Quotes

Influence Quotes

Browse 5077 quotes about Influence.

Related topics

PeopleThinkingIfsWorldWayMenKnowsMindTryingWantImportantMayGivingPersonsHas BeensDifferentShouldHumansCountryMeanBigsWritingFirstsKindChildrenPoliticalBelieveStatesWellsCharacterActionFeelsArtGovernmentIdeasYearsDoeArtistUseLooksBookMadeCultureHelpingLittlesAbilityTwoHeartInterestNeedsIndividualMotherPowerfulSoulForceLongFeelingsChristianRealStillsWould BeParentReasonStrongTodayHugeAbleCoursesDecisionFactsPlayWholeEffectsFormYoungMatterCertainNationsOpinionSchoolSocialFatherInfluencing PeopleSelfChurchHomeLeadershipMoralSaidTeacherAmericaFilmLeaderTogetherExerciseShowsSometimesI CanMightPositionmore

Influence Quotes

“Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles.”

ShouldBelievePersonsActionInfluenceSpeechOfficePraiseDistanceRefuseCommunicateMilesSatisfiedRight Action
Book:Essays, First and Second Series
Create image

“...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.”

WorldHeartHomeSchoolMotherLossBoysInfluenceSonKissingEconomicsTradeLipsDisappointmentLimitationManhoodControversyBewilderedMother And Son
Author:Judith Ellen Foster
Create image

“Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline.”

MenDoeHas BeensReasonActionTimeCommunityViolenceInfluenceDisciplineJudgmentInstrumentsThreatUniversityDefinitionsCeasePrimariesExpulsion
Author:Richard M. Nixon
Create image

“Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.”

PeopleKnowsWellsImportantDoneSeemsJobsNextCausesCasesClearRecordsInfluencePraiseBlueFellowsListsInstanceRecognitionExcellentMeritDepartmentResentmentPromotionCompensationWell DoneWeakeningJob Well Done
Author:John Moulder Wilson
Create image

“Choice is born out of opposites, and the duality of the second chakra is forever challenging us to make choices in a world of opposing sides, of positive and negative energy patterns. Every choice we make contributes a subtle current of our energy to our universe, which is responsive to the influence of human consciousness.”

WorldHumansChoicesUniverseEnergySidesBornChallengesConsciousnessForeverInfluenceNegativeOppositesPatternsCurrentsSubtleDualityOpposingChakraHuman ConsciousnessNegative Energy
Book:Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
Create image

“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.”

MayChildrenMatterMotherOrderCultureResponsibilityOur LivesFateInfluenceBiologyDedicatedPowerlessGoverningDiligentMother And ChildOutside Influences
Author:Mary Blakely
Create image

“However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.”

ThinkingYearsHumansMeanPastMotherViewsInfluenceTaughtSonDevelopmentInvolvedTwentiesMotherhoodMy SonPassagesRootedOver The PastHuman DevelopmentBeing A MotherPedestriansWhat It Means To Be HumanMost Inspiring
Author:Mary Blakely
Create image

“There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.”

ThinkingFeelsMomentsBeliefForceDecisionAliveInfluenceDetermineHow You Feel
Book:Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life
Create image

“Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both by Church and State when Columbus sailed from Palos. The Wise Men traveled from the East toward the West under the guidance of the Star of Bethlehem. The spirit of the equality of all men before God and the law moved westward from Calvary with its revolutionary influence upon old institutions, to the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus carried it westward across the seas.”

MenWorldStatesGovernmentLawSpiritForceStarsChristBornChurchWiseSeaInfluenceSourceExerciseAuthorityOceanInstitutionsMovedWestEastFactorsRevolutionaryGuidanceTraveledChurch And StateColumbusCalvaryBethlehemAtlantic Ocean
Book:The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892
Create image

“Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.”

IfsGivingEyeSchoolGamesClassInfluenceBirdUniversityAppearanceEducatedFascinatingMuseumsTraitsAutobiographyMixturesPublic SchoolEnglishmenPietyTediousSlyPrepsFixation
Author:V. S. Pritchett
Create image

“It is difficult to grasp the immensity and significance of the extreme reverence paid to the Goddess over a period of (at least) seven thousand years and over miles of land cutting across national boundaries and vast expanses of sea. Yet it is vital to do just that to fully comprehend the longevity as well as the widespread power and influence this religion once held.”

YearsWellsReligionDifficultWomenCuttingSeaInfluenceLandPeriodsThousandPaidSevenExtremesMilesBoundariesSignificanceReverenceGoddessLongevityThousand YearsImmensityExpanse
Author:Merlin Stone
Create image

“I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.”

PeopleThinkingHeartPersonsPlayPoliticalPurposeSufferingInterestInfluenceMinesFoolBirthBecomingDaughterMutualMatrimonyExtendingMutual InterestPolitical Influence
Book:Marriage [by S.E. Ferrier]. Edinb. ed
Create image

“We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest augury of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.”

PersonsSaidSpeakStarsBornInfluencePlanetsGravesAstrologyGloomyJupiterSaturnJovial
Author:Richard Chenevix Trench
Create image

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

MenStatesPoorPowerfulFamilyInfluenceMovementBecomingCivilizationMassMen And WomenConstitutionMethodMajorityDivorceMotherhoodIgnorantChiefsTortureMost PowerfulDreadViciousRulingIndulgenceAccumulationSpiritualismAntagonismUnitingFree LoveWorldlinessMaternityLarge FamilyPoor HealthIgnorant Masses
Book:Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession
Create image