| INFLUENCE |
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Quote: Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. Author: Henri Frederic Amiel 1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic Quote: He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer Quote: The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer Quote: What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer Quote: See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism Quote: One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. Author: Jorge Luis Borges 1899-1986, Argentinean Author Quote: It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. Author: Tom Brokaw 1940-, American TV Personality, Editor Quote: It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author Quote: A community is like the ones who govern it. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician Quote: The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. Author: Salvador Dali 1904-1989, Spanish Painter Quote: Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away. Author: Canon Lindsay Dewar Quote: At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist Quote: Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist Quote: People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. Author: T. S. Eliot 1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic Quote: Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist Quote: Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet Quote: Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Author: Henry George 1839-1897, American Social Reformer, Economist Quote: A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Author: Cullen Hightower Quote: It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher Quote: He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow. Author: Elbert Hubbard 1859-1915, American Author, Publisher Quote: We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. Author: Thomas H. Huxley 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator Quote: Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. Author: Carl Jung 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist Quote: Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. Author: Thomas p Kempis 1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer Quote: In our society a man is known by the company he owns. Author: Gerald F. Lieberman American Writer Quote: We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher Quote: The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation. Author: Iain Macleod 1913-1970, British Statesman Quote: The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine Quote: Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. Author: Tom Morris Quote: The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher Quote: Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin Quote: What little Jack does not learn, big John will never. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin Quote: The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin Quote: Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. Author: Korean Proverb Sayings of Korean Origin Quote: The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist Quote: Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher Quote: There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher Quote: People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice. Author: Frank Romer Quote: Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. Author: B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner 1904-1990, American Psychologist Quote: Let him that would move the world, first move himself. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens Quote: We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist Quote: There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. Author: Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator Quote: Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. Author: Joan Welsh Quote: Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. Author: Andrew Young 1932-, Civil Rights Activist, Protestant Minister, Public Official |
