Influence Quotes

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!

~ Billy Graham

Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?

~ Billy Graham

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

~ Billy Graham

God will never lead contrary to His word—so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence.

~ Billy Graham

It doesn’t take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endurance.

~ Billy Graham

The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.

~ Billy Graham

Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.

~ Billy Graham

I think it was a sense of being completely swallowed up by nature that gave the prairie its powerful attraction.There is nothing like it in all of Europe. Even high up on a Swiss glacier one is still conscious of the toy villages below, the carefully groomed landscape of multicolored fields,the faraway ringing of a church bell. It is all very beautiful, but it does not convey the utmost escape. I believe, with the Indians, that a landscape influences and forms the people living on it and that one cannot understand them and make friends with them without also understanding, and making friends with, the earth from which they came.

~ Richard Erdoes

Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you.

~ Steven Redhead

Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.

~ Dianna Booher

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation.

~ James Joseph Sylvester

She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.

~ Gemma Liviero

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

~ A.j. Darkholme

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

~ Mark Kurlansky

The author finds any freaking, and remarkably objective, way to estimate religion's influence on American society before the Civil War. The population closely aligned with evangelical sympathies was three or four times the size of the voting population in 1860

~ Mark A. Noll

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.

~ Rick Perlstein

We the people have more power than we know, and we must learn to use it judiciously.

~ Jeff Jarvis

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

~ Don Williams

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

~ Niall Ferguson

When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?

~ Warren Ellis

There is always something through which things get into our minds. There is always something in mind which does not only control the mind, but also the life we live in totality!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Greatness is in influence, and not necessarily in affluence. It is not achieved by being a 'paper millionaire', but by being a 'people millionaire'.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

~ Paulo Coelho

It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages, and its detrimental effect upon progress, that makes the Bible the most wicked, the most detestable, the most pernicious, and the most obnoxious book ever published. It has been a curse to the human race.It is the duty of every brave and honest man and woman to do everything in his and her power to destroy the influence of this utterly stupid and vicious book, with its infantile concept of life and its nonsense concerning the universe. It is their duty to do everything within their power to stop its demoralizing and paralyzing influence upon the life of man.We will never achieve intellectual liberty until the wickedness of this book has been discarded with the belief in the flatness of the earth.

~ Joseph Lewis

What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.

~ Mike Crump

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

~ Criss Jami

Leadership isn't about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.

~ Onyi Anyado

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

~ #Name?

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

~ C.s. Lewis

I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and to network hate-churches in order to get their way and to rob people of their human rights, and it gives me cold chills.

~ Christina Engela

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

~ Agatha Christie

If you are sad don't try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach.

~ Ben Bereng

The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geological changes which also was matter of fact; could be used as the only necessary postulates of a theory of the evolution of plants and animals which, even if not at once, competent to explain all the known facts of biological science, could not be shown to be inconsistent with any.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

First LawIn every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ, and gives it a power proportional to the length of time it has been so used; while the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.Second LawAll the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

~ Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

~ Olaf Stapledon

The best teachers are those that can influence even the poorest of all learners.

~ Kim Panti