Quotes about Influence
If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Everywhere the woman went she drew her little rainbow of happiness along with her.
— Janette Oke
Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.
— Gordon Hinckley
Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you.
— Mother Teresa
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
— Rick Warren
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
— Yulia Tymoshenko
Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.
— James Arthur
One way to appreciate C.S. Lewis is to see how his Christian humility shaped his life and work.
— John Piper
James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.
— Albert Einstein
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
— Alice Hoffman
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
— Henry Ward Beecher