Good Influences Quotes:

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.

- Randy Travis

source: Source: www.cbn.com

topic: Influence, Said, Good Influences

I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking. But I also have things to give them.

- Jose Mourinho

source: "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

topic: Football, Thinking, Giving, English Football, Good Influences

I'm formally trained, I don't know what classically trained really means. I've worked with Sanford Meisner. And I've worked at Circle Rep with Marshall W. Mason and Lanford Wilson and some really good people. I was lucky. I had a lot of really good influences.

- Brad Dourif

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

topic: Mean, Circles, People, Masons, Good Influences

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

- Taeyang

topic: Tvxq, Influence, Stage, Good Influences

The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Strong, Government, Order, Strong Government, Good Influences

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.178, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Hollywood, Influence, Film, Madly In Love, Good Influences

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

- Ray Bradbury

source: Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Would Be, Stories, Kind, Wonderful Woman, Good Influences

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Giving, Example, Way, Good Influences

In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.

- Ari Marcopoulos

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Literature, Influence, Stale, Good Influences

In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.

- Pierre Trudeau

source: Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

topic: Believe, Thinking, People, Good Influences

Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Meaningful, Good Influences

As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: God, Christian, Religious, Good Influences

One thing I’ve learned through all the ups and downs is that if you’re doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they’re on your side, you’re doing something right.

- Hope Solo

source: "Hope Solo’s Nude ESPN Shoot Included Dropping Her Robe, Sprinting In The Middle Of The Street". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

topic: Your Side, People, Groups, Homies, Good Influences

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Love, Relationship, Distance, Absence Love, Good Influences

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Passion, Thinking, Borrowed, Good Influences

The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith." ... "Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

- George W. Bush

source: "Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriages". edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2004.

topic: Religious, Gay, Men, Weakening, Good Influences

Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society. Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.

- George W. Bush

source: The President's Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 3, 2006.

topic: Religious, Children, Husband, Weakening, Good Influences

[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.

- Desiderius Erasmus

source: Attributed to Desiderius Erasmus by Senator J. William Fulbright, "In Need of a Consensus," Penrose Memorial Lecture, delivered to the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1961.

topic: May, Influence, Affair, Good Influences

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Women, Men, Influence, Good Influences

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

- Jack Kingston

topic: Religious, Roots, Influence, Good Influences

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.

- Origen

topic: Teaching, Angel, Men, Good Influences

So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

- Kim Dae-jung

topic: Country, Giving, Democracy, Asian Countries, Market Economy

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

- David Swanson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: California, West Coast, United States, Good Influences