Influence

(206 votes)   The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(164 votes)   Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(138 votes)   Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(97 votes)   Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(96 votes)   There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator

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(91 votes)   There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

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(89 votes)   The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

Italian Proverbs
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(86 votes)   Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Korean Proverbs
Sayings of Korean Origin

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(79 votes)   One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author

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(72 votes)   We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(71 votes)   He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Elbert Hubbard
1859-1915, American Author, Publisher

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(70 votes)   We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(69 votes)   Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Tom Morris

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(56 votes)   At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(55 votes)   A community is like the ones who govern it.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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