Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Influence Quotes
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Human beings are not influenced by anything to which they are not naturally disposed.
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
And, as philosophies, some religions have very valuable moral points. They may have a good influence or proper principles to inculcate, but in a very contradictory context and, on a very – how should I say it? – dangerous or malevolent base: on the ground of faith.
Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind.
I’ve learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
