Quotes about Influence
Augustine is so wholly with me, that if I wished to write a confession of my faith, I could do so with all fullness and satisfaction to myself out of his writings.
— John Calvin
All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.
— John Calvin
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
— John Donne
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
— John Donne
I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.
— Edmund Hillary
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
— CS Lewis
I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
— Will Rogers
I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.
— Zendaya
A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.
— Lao Tzu
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
— Oprah Winfrey
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— CS Lewis
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
— John Lennon