Quotes About Influence

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

Jack's dad had started smoking during the war, so he'd grown up around the habit.

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

He is the brother-in-law of the sister-in-law of the father-in-law of my mother-in-law, and therefore is the closest relative we have; so nothing is done in our family without his advice.

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. -Elinor Dashwood

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

El poder de separar dos personas que se quieren tan intensamente no está al alcance de una persona ajena.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!

You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

There is something agreeable in feelings so easily worked on; not that I envy him their possession, nor would, for the world, have such myself; but they are very convenient when one wishes to influence the passions of another.

A weak spirit which is always open to persuasion, first one way and then the other, can never be relied upon.

Elizabeth found that nothing was beneath this great lady's attention, which could furnish her with an occasion of dictating to others.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.

Her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way.