<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Influence - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20871]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem.  Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido,   Mens aliud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20868]]></link><description><![CDATA[No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20869]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel.  To lower good, and beauties less divine,   Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline;    But yet (so strong the sympathy)     It turns, and points again to Thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20858]]></link><description><![CDATA[O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again  In minds made better by their presence; live   In pulses stirred to generosity,    In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn     For miserable aims that end with self.      In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,       And with their mild persistence urge man's search        To vaster issues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent,  All are needed by each one;   Nothing is fair or good alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire  Que ce petit nez retrousse   Changerait les lois d'un empire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true,  Turns at the touch of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That like the needle true,  Turns at the touch of joy or woe;   But turning, trembles too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20862]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole;  But what were that intrinsic virtue worth,   Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge,    Fresh from St. Andrew's College,     Should nail the conscious needle to the north?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken,  The light he leaves behind him lies   Upon the paths of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20843]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future influences the present just as much as the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850]]></link><description><![CDATA[God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind;  So shakes the needle, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20853]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind;  So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole,   As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20856]]></link><description><![CDATA[He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3435</guid></item></channel></rss>