Quotes about Influence
Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness.
— John Calvin
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