Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
Josh Billings

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
Ringo Starr

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

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
Richard M. Nixon

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.
Keith Richards

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.
Ulysses S. Grant

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
Eric Hoffer

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Gertrude Stein

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
Quentin Tarantino

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.
Cleveland Abbe

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
George Eliot

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
Dee Hock