Influence Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

35 Influence Quotes
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“The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Source: The Biglow Papers (second series, The Courtin', st. 6)
“No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes
Source: Lucile (pr. II, canto VI, st. 40)
“No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes
Source: Lucile (pt. II, canto VI)
“You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.”
George MacDonald Quotes
Source: The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXVII)
“Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To lower good, and beauties less divine, Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline; But yet (so strong the sympathy) It turns, and points again to Thee.”
John Norris of Bemerton Quotes
Source: Aspiration
“If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem. Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Metamorphoses (VII, 18)
“If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.”
Blaise Pascal Quotes
Source: Thoughts (ch. VIII, 29)
“By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.”
Plato Quotes
Source: in Kircher's "Magnes Sive de Arte Magnetica"
“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.”
Margot Asquith Quotes
“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.”
Elizabeth Bibesco Quotes