Best 1875 quotes in «influence quotes» category

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

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.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is our duty not to not only hold fast, but to hold forth the Word of life; not only to hold fast for our own benefit, but to hold it forth for the benefit of others, to hold it forth as the candlestick holds forth the candle, which makes it appear to advantage all around, or as the luminaries of the heavens, which shed their influences far and wide.

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

It is well known that you can only manage what you measure, and as this is the job of professional accountants, it means they have huge influence on companies' governance.

It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

It's still too early to say how my wife will influence my life. But I do already know that it's sometimes hard work living with her.

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I use a combination of all my influences on my albums.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role.

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences.

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

I will absolutely say that Johnny Ramone was a huge influence on me. I'm a giant Ramones fan.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.

I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

I would like to meet with Drake. I would love to meet him. He's from the city I'm from. I feel we share the same interests and I'm really just into his music and him as a person in general. He's great at what he does. I would want to meet Eminem. He was my first ever influence. The reason why I even started writing was because my mom bought me my first Eminem CD and I was glued from there.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually.

Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence.

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.