Quotes about Influence
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
— Billy Graham
All I am I owe to my mother.
— George Washington
The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.
— Sofia Vergara
Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?
— Charles Swindoll
How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!
— Ezra Taft Benson
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
— St. Augustine
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
— Virginia Woolf
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
— Maya Angelou
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
— George Washington
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
— Abraham Lincoln