All Quotes by Social influence
“My heart is feminine, nor can forget—As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.”
“He raised a mortal to the skies;She drew an angel down.”
“In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and values and position ought to be protected and who should have a greater influence on public affairs than others.”
“The growth of ideas is an international process, and only those who fully take part in the discussion will be able to exercise a significant influence.”
“No lifeAnd all life not be purer and stronger thereby.”
“No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.”
“If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.”
“Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.”
“Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.”
“God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.”
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
“Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.”
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.”
“O may I join the choir invisibleTo vaster issues.”
“Nor knowest thou what argumentNothing is fair or good alone.”
“A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”
“Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, But turning, trembles too.”
“Lay ye down the golden chainBoth Goddesses and Gods.”
“Spontaneously to God should turn the soul,Should nail the conscious needle to the north?”
“Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole,The needle pointing to Him is our soul.”
“So when a great man dies, Upon the paths of men.”
“The very room, coz she was in,Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.”
“You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.”
“Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I fed, It turns, and points again to Thee.”
“Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.”
“By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.”
“And the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.”
“They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.”
“Even as the needle that directs the hour,From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.”
“Such souls,Wakens the slumbering ages.”
“For so the whole round Earth is every wayBound by Gold Chains about the Feet of God.”
“I am a part of all that I have met.”
“I thank God that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is said to be able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit, which would drag angels down.”
“It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.”
“Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereavesOf their bad influence, and their good receives.”
“Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,A constant influence, a peculiar grace.”
“If you had the seeds of a pestilence in your body, you would not have a more active contagion than you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence—-an influence, too, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”
“What we do is transacted on a stage of which all the universe are spectators. What we say is transmitted in echoes that will never cease. What we are is influencing and acting on the rest of mankind. Neutral we cannot be. Living, we act; and dead, we speak; and the whole universe is the mighty company forever looking, forever listening, and all nature the tablets, forever recording the words, the deeds, the thoughts, the passions of mankind.”
“No fountain is so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.”
“To get good is animal; to do good is human; to be good is Divine. The true use of a man's possessions is to help his work; and the best end of all his work is to show us what he is. The noblest workers of our world bequeath us nothing so great as the image of themselves. Their task, be it ever so glorious, is historical and transient; the majesty of their spirit is essential and eternal.”
“Every word, thought, and deed has its influence upon the destiny of man. Every life, well spent or ill spent, bears with it a long train of consequences, extending through generations yet unborn.”
“The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God.”