Quotes about Influence

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.

Whatever limits us,we call Fate

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.