Quotations on Influence

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

~ George Eliot

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

~ Socrates

I am a part of all that I have met.

~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

~ Blaise Pascal