Quotes about Influence

Dad truly believed that Christians should be involved in the political process and should make their voices heard.

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.

Remember, no one decides who they're going to vote for based on the vice president. I mean that literally.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

Were it not for the influence of the Spirit of Christ in this world, we would see much more calamity, violence, natural catastrophes, war, and crime.

Were it not for the influence of the Spirit of Christ in this world, we would see much more calamity, violence, natural catastrophes, war, and crime.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.