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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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• The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life Lesson, Book, Writing

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Essays in the Art of Writing(illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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• Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humility, Light, Darkness

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

  Fisher Ames

  Heart, Law, Liberty

  Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered”, p.138

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• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

  Euripides

  Wise, Literature

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• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  Epictetus

  Life, Desire, Opinion

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• What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Fate, Thinking

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.128, Edith Wharton

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• Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.167, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religious, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

  L. Tom Perry

  Encouragement, Integrity, Educational

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• Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

  Michael Josephson

  Leader, Inspire, Matter

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• When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep at bay the influences of the world that would draw us from what we are to do.

  Julie B. Beck

  Order, Priorities, World

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• People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

  T. S. Eliot

  People, Wish, Want

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• Being successful is not determined by the amount of money you make but by the amount of lives you affect and influence for the better.

  Behdad Sami

  Successful, Determined, Amount

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• Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.

  Shakira

  Yield, Leader, Political

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• We change people, but oftentimes we get so focused on the negative people and their influence on us, we forget how powerful we are as positive people to influence others.

  Michelle Gielan

  Powerful, People, Negative

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

  Rebecca Solnit

  People, Ordinary, Surrender

  Source: therumpus.net

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• true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

  Thornton Wilder

  Eye, Secret, Moments

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• I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity.

  Will Smith

  Responsibility, Grandmother, Philadelphia

  Source: www.gq.com

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• The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.

  Chip Conley

  Powerful, Emotion

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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 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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• 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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• In my view, photography and painting really share one history. The influences that work on one, work on the other.

  Jack Welpott

  Photography, Views, Painting

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• The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Study, Glory, Poet

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, en.wikiquote.org. 1795 - 1822.

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