Quotes About Influence

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

One cannot transform a world except as individuals in the world are transformed, and individuals cannot be changed except as they are molded in the hands of the Master.

A few people so dedicated in time will shake the world for God. Victory is never won by the multitudes.

Studies have indicated that the tone of voice may be more important than any other element in our response.

But when the next time approached for the full moon, I began to be aware of a strange, malicious influence. An atmosphere of horror hovered in the air and I was aware of inexplicable, uncanny impulses.

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

If the present and past moods of these people were bad, they were more likely to contract the cold. So,

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

In America we have Rockefellers for breakfast.

Always remember, you don't need bad people to get bad deeds done. All you need is somebody clever enough to convince good people that a nefarious policy is actually the greatest thing since the pop-up toaster. As I have frequently observed, most of the serious evils in the world have been done in the name of good.

If you take the view that one of the chief objects in life is to remain in loving relationships with other people, straight-line power becomes useless.

Journalism can be lethal

No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who.

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this "something" cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It's what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn't count it. Nothing counts without it.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.