Quotes about Influence
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
— Cicero
If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.
— Clay Aiken
I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.
— Clay Aiken
Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution
— Herbert Hoover
I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.
— Herbert Hoover
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
— Herman Melville
It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.
— Hilaire Belloc
I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?
— Hildegard of Bingen
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?
— Hillary Clinton
Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn't matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more.
— Lisa Bevere
If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known. MATTHEW ARNOLD, NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH POET AND PHILOSOPHER
— Lisa Bevere
I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.
— James Faust