Influence Quotes

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

When I'm gonna sing for people I try to meditate upon his majesty and meditate on what is right and then transmit it to the nation. That is how Rastafari really influence.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.

Around the world, America's influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

A woman’s sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

Is he under the influence or something?

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage on his human world.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.

The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.

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

Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Man is at his best when complimented by the influence of a good woman.

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

The actions you take today not only impact you; they influence generations. Every matter matters for eternity.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.