Quotes about Influence
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
— Emily Bronte
Some say once a word is said it's dead. I say it just begins to live that day.
— Emily Bronte
Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
— Epictetus
Can we avoid people? How is that possible? And if we associate with them, can we change them? Who gives us that power?
— Epictetus
When you have him as your leader, and conform your will and desire to his, what fear of failure can you have?
— Epictetus
End the habit of despising things that are not within your power
— Epictetus
You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.
— Epictetus
If you make peace with all things that are beyond your power, refusing to fight them, you will be invincible.
— Epictetus
There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.
— Epictetus
But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.
— Epictetus
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
— Erica Jong
The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
— Amy Grant