Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Deepak Chopra

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

Leadership is influence.
John C. Maxwell

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
Clint Eastwood

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington