Sayings about Influence
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred. ~ Korean Proverbs
He who can persuade someone not to gamble has earned money for him. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish. ~ Traditional Proverb
The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp. ~ Italian Proverbs
The mouth that eats pepper is the one that the pepper influences. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Those who sleep with dogs get up with fleas. ~ American Proverbs
Flattery is the best persuader of people. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Persuasion is better than force. ~ Traditional Proverb
Quotations about Influence
he best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
A community is like the ones who govern it. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation. ~ Iain MacLeod
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. ~ John Locke
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. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. ~ Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
In our society a man is known by the company he owns. ~ Gerald F. Lieberman
Influence: Science and Practice. ~ Book previw
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I thank God that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would drag angels down. ~ Daniel Webster,
No man stands alone. Through all the centuries of recorded time, men have set into motion influences that affect your life today. ~ Wilferd Arlan Peterson
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. ~ Albert Einstein
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything. ~ Burrhus Frederic Skinner
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. ~ Orison Swett Marden
All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I’m just a person trapped inside a woman’s body. ~ Elayne Boosler
The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person. W e may say to our children: Here is art, science, philosophy, mathematics, music, psychology, history, religion–and we may open innumerable doors along the corridors of living so that they will have a broad and even a minute acquaintance with the segments of life; but these introductions are not as important as knowing people whose characters and actions, personalities and words have grown after similar introductions and have become worthy of emulation. ~ Paul D. Shafer
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restore it! ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. ~ Carl Jung
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes. ~ Joseph Addison
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. ~ Henry George
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 after they have departed. ~ Jim Rohn
A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told. ~ Ninon de L’Enclos
Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. ~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret. ~ Salvador Dali
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. ~ Shirin Ebadi
There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives. ~ Jim Rohn
We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. ~ Virginia Satir
God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.~ Matthew Barker
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. ~ Cicero
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ~ Merrill Markoe
Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise. ~ Euripides
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. ~ Canon Lindsay Dewar
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot
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. ~ Thomas H. Huxley
Woman’s influence embraces the whole of life. ~ Alexander Walker
It’s better to be alone than in foolish and troublesome company. I lay no great stress upon my opinions, or on those of others. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. ~ Eleanor H. Porter
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. ~ Tom Brokaw
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. ~ Frank Romer
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. ~ Jean Paul Richter
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to. ~ Holden Caulfield
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. ~ Cullen Hightower
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great. ~ Tom Morris
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be. ~ Thomas à Kempis
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ~ Blaise Pascal
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ~ Eric Hoffer
I is for Influence: The new science of persuasion.~ Book preview
