Quotes about Influence

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

There is nothing wrong with being a puppet if love is the one pulling the strings.

Love has no spear but conquers hearts.

Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

We must act in such a way, when reading a story, that we let it act on us. We must allow it to move us, we must let it do whatever work it wants to do on us. We must somehow make ourselves open to it.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Your subconscious mind recognizes and acts only upon thoughts which have been well-mixed with emotion or feeling.