Influence Quotes - Page 19

• There can be moments in your life where you may feel attracted to someone depending on circumstance, depending on the person of one gender or another, and sometimes where that is less of an influence in your life.

  Charles M. Blow

  May, Sometimes, Moments

  "After Childhood Abuse, 'Times' Columnist Says He Chose Life Over Vengeance". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2014.

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• I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

  Jane Gardam

  Thinking, Young Writers, Cynicism

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• By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Practice, Confusion

  Chogyam Trungpa (2008). “True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Responsibility, Home

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Childhood, Doe

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• Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fall, Men, Silence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.53

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

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Relation, Circumstances, Determine

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• By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Soul, Religion

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• The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Health, Dark, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.37

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• In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Reflection, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

  Ouida

  Children, Genius

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.15, Ouida

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• There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dull, Authorship, Command

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Men, Wind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Hands, Body

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
  And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Given, Policy, Seasons

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.231

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• By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.

  William Hazlitt

  Hurt, Reading, Flames

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.224, Springer

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• Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Path, Suspects

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.381

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• The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Sight

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• Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Genius, Want

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Tails, Torpedoes, Discharge

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• Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enthusiasm, Abiding, Generations

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• If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Sake

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Silent, Indolence

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.265, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.

  Edward Everett

  Faith, Spiritual, Support

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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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