Influence Quotes

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

The roots of my fashion are very classic. People judge me avant-garde, people judge me rock and roll, and I am smiling. I am the most classically influenced of the Italian designers.

I just read this great science fiction story. It’s about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves!… Hey! What time is it? My TV show is on! (“Calvin and Hobbes”)

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

It is not merely that Greece has a claim upon our attention because we are by our spiritual and mental inheritance partly Greek and cannot escape if we would that deep influence which worked with power through the centuries, teaching with light of reason and grace of beauty the wild Northern savages.

Do we move ourselves, or are moved by an unseen hand at a game that pushes us off from the board, and others ever succeed?

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, “Who said this?” but pay attention to what is said.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.