(1290 quotes found)
“Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.”
William Godwin
“Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind”
Benjamin Franklin
“I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.”
Alexander Fleming
“Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.”
Simone Weil
“Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.”
Bernard Law Montgomery
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret”
Salvador Dalí
“Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man”
Richard Whately
“Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Adversity breaks the inferior man's will but only bends the superior man's spirit. Outward influence is denied the great man, who accordingly uses words sparingly but retains his central position.”
I Ching
“Dreams have as much influence as actions”
Stephane Mallarme
