Great Influence Quotes:

With great influence comes great responsibility.

- Melanie Iglesias

topic: Responsibility, Influence, Great Influence, Great Responsibility

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

- Brian May

topic: Influence, Great Influence

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Influencing People, Inspiring Leader

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

- Stephen King

topic: Too Late, Why Not, Influence, Great Influence

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Children, Men, Law, Muslim Faith, Frenzy

Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

- Dean Dillon

topic: Writing, Influence, Settling, Great Influence

Love has no great influences upon the sum of life.

- Samuel Johnson

source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: Miscellaneous pieces”, p.107

topic: Love, Love Life, Influence, Great Influence

Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.

- Robert S Ellwood

topic: Spiritual, Writing, Organization, Modern History, Great Influence

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

- Debra Wilson

topic: Growing Up, Growing, Influence, Great Influence

I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

- Judy Collins

topic: Mother, Father, Play, Great Influence

Dr. Parent has been a great influence on my mental game. ZEN GOLF is the best book at connecting golf and the mind together. It's for everyone, it really helps, and you're really going to enjoy it.

- Vijay Singh

topic: Book, Golf, Games, Great Influence

I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.

- Susan Tucker

topic: Thinking, Space, Singing, Great Influence

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Art, Careers, Organization, Great Influence

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

- Vera Wang

topic: School, Mirrors, Dancer, Looking In The Mirror, Skater

We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact.

- Thomas Dwight

topic: Men, Ideas, Ignorant, Great Influence

The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.

- Svante Arrhenius

source: Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”

topic: School, Science, May, Great Influence

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (1962). “Representative selections: with introduction, bibliography, and notes”

topic: Christianity And Government, Religion And Government, Great Influence

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

- Aristotle

source: "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

topic: Good Will, Great Influence, Nicomachean Ethics

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

- Michael Foot

topic: Father, Taught, Influence, Great Influence

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

- Donald Barthelme

topic: Mother, Father, Drama, University Of Pennsylvania, Great Influence

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: War, Wine, Exercise, Great Influence

The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet.

- Nat Turner

source: Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

topic: Writing, Perfect, Mind, Great Influence

I was fortunate that when I was first starting out in New Orleans, I had a remarkable high-school teacher. And she was a great, great influence in my life, and I think she gave me the courage and the confidence to go forward into the real world. She instilled in me that my dreams were important and that what I was passionate about was most important.

- John Cena

topic: Dream, Teacher, Real, Great Influence, High School Teachers

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

- Orhan Pamuk

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Islands, Intellectual, Culture, Dostoyevsky, Great Influence

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

- Richard Cecil

source: Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.137

topic: Great Influence

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

- Joan Van Ark

topic: Taught, Influence, Jacob, Great Influence

'm the second oldest of eight kids. I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic. I understand that with great influence comes great responsibility.

- Melanie Iglesias

topic: Sibling, Kids, Responsibility, Great Responsibility, Good Role Models

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

- Martin Short

source: Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Influence, Great Influence

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Leadership, Doe, Compromise, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

- John Marshall

topic: Party, Political, United States, Great Influence

New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So does everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Spiritual, New York, Exercise, Armenians, Great Influence

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

- Howard Nemerov

topic: Writing, Literature, Yeats, Starting To Write, Eliot

A great influence in my life was the sanctified or Holiness churches...Everybody in there sang and they clapped and stomped heir feet and sang with their whole body... Their music was so strong and expressive, it used to bring tears to my eyes.

- Mahalia Jackson

topic: Music, Strong, Eye, Great Influence

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.505

topic: Writing, One Direction, Mind, Great Influence

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

topic: Party, Grandmother, People, Great Influence

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

- Amy Tan

source: "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

topic: Reading, Influence, Catchers, Forbidden Things, Great Influence

Dad has always been - and still is - a great influence on me. He has always stood up for spirit, staying true to his beliefs... and I like to do the same with regard to my own true beliefs, regardless of potential criticism or mockery.

- Linus Roache

topic: Dad, Criticism, Spirit, Great Influence