George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence."
Influence quotes
Influence
913 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal."
Franklin P. Adams
Writer, Journalist
"I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence."
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"Before you can ever inspire, motivate, or influence, you must connect first."
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"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake."
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"In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor."
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"People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence."
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"The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior."
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"Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence."
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"History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
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"What you become directly influences what you get."
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"You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt."
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"It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale."
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"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late."
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"We are not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other company."
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"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences"
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"One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas."
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"In the end, I find my influences or inspirations where I can."
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"Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking."
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"In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident."
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"For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others."
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"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives."
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"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."
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