Influence Quotes - Page 20

• Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sound, Public Opinion, Conviction

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• A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Ideas, White

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.49, Penguin

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• [On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Humble, Pie, Littles

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• The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

  George Washington

  Light, Christianity, Revelations

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.367

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• Influence is not government.

  George Washington

  Government

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt.III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789. 1835”, p.204

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• People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Beats

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The House In Paris”, p.146, Random House

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• Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gay, Mind, Half

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings”, p.405

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• The sacred influence of light appears.

  John Milton

  Light, Sacred

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.171

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• If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Fate, Men, Justice

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• A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Fundamentals, Belief, Belief In God

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “The menace of Darwinism”

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• Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which
  Men are and ought to be accountable,--
  If not to Thee, to those they influence.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men, Use, Wealth

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.104

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• The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

  John Ruskin

  Taken, Trying, Matter

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.299

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• Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Add, Splendor

  John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.37

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• there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

  Margaret Fuller

  Children, Parent, Use

  Margaret Fuller (1869). “Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems”, p.31

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• The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Morality, Moral

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• Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle, it makes saints and martyrs; ill-directed, or uncontrolled, it is a snare, and the source of every temptation; besides, as people cannot get it if it is not given them, to descant on it seems to me as idle as to recommend people to have black eyes or fair complexions.

  Hannah More

  Christian, Eye, Evil

  William Roberts, Hannah More (1835). “Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More”, p.336

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• Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and the perversion of fashion, the plainest and most unequivocal may be so altered, as to have a meaning assigned them almost diametrically opposite to their original signification.

  Hannah More

  Fashion, Opposites, Evil

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.355

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• There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence of feelings unfavorable to the faithful discharge of their political duties.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Office, Political

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.48

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• The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

  Herodotus

  Morning, Wine, Night

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• I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.

  Tennessee Williams

  Taken, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religious, Educational, Long

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• The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities of higher education, for the full development of her faculties, forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear - is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Giving

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

  Shana Alexander

  Fashion, Song, Art

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Principles, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.17, Random House

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• Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

  Jane Addams

  Intellectual, Expansion, Affection

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.19, Basic Books

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