|
Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! |
|
Home -
Quote Topics -
Quote Keywords -
Author Types -
Author Nationalities
Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
|
|
|
|
|
Definition of Influence |
|
|
Influence
A flowing in or upon; influx. Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs. Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community. Induction. To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce. Related Definitions: About, According, Acknowledged, Action, Affect, Agency, An, And, Animal, Any, Arising, As, Ascendency, Authority, Bias, Bringing, By, Character, Community, Control, Controlling, Education, Effect, Elevated, Exert, Exerted, Flowing, Force, From, General, Gentle, Gradual, He, Hence, In, Induce, Induction, Influence, Influx, Intellect, Is, Kind, Life, Man, Mind, Modify, Moral, Move, Of, On, Or, Over, Persuade, Physical, Power, Process, Quietly, Reputation, Station, Sun, Sway, Tendency, The, To, Upon, Vegetable, Wealth, Which |
|
|
Influence Quotations
I have more influence now than when I had the power. Gough Whitlam The people who influence you are the people who believe in you. Henry Drummond Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 |
|
Influence Translations
influence in Danish is indflydelse influence in French is influence, influez, ascendant, influent, influer influence in Italian is influsso, influire influence in Latin is moveo moti motum, induco indux inductum, pulsus influence in Spanish is influencia, influir |
|
|
|
|
Quotes
RSS Feeds
|
|