Quotes about Influence

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

Power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

The thoughts that linger are the "If only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.

Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little people do just the opposite.