Influence Quotes

• Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Entrepreneur, Mind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 19, 2017

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• You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational Life, Teaching, Learning

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• We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2016

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• The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Powerful, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jul 28, 2011

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Success, Teacher, Congratulations

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.122, Lulu.com

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• The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  James Allen (2016). “The James Allen Companion”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

  John Marshall

  Powerful, Communication, Mean

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  "50 stunning Olympic moments No35: Wilma Rudolph's triple gold in 1960" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.

  T. S. Eliot

  Exercise, People, Unconscious

  T.S. Eliot (1950). “Selected Essays”

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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Family, Best Effort

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• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Leadership, Being Strong

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

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• The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Evil, Individuality

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, Discipline, People

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• Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Children

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• Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.

  Brian Tracy

  Smell, Brain, Feels

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• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Future, Past

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• It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Degrees, Would Be, Literature

  Eric Hoffer (1969). “Working and Thinking on the Waterfront: A Journal, June 1958-May 1959”

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Mom, Mother

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from May 08, 2014

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• The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Book, Gone, Littles

  Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) "Books That Influenced Me"

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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