Quotes About Influence

But I think girls ought to show when they disapprove of young men, and how can they do it except by their manners? Preaching does not do any good, as I know to my sorrow, since I've had Teddy to manage; but there are many little ways in which I can influence him without a word, and I say we ought to do it to others if we can.

Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.

for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

You will find that money can buy everything, even the conscience and integrity of a priest, began Tempest.

Yes, and when I have my flock, I'll just point to you, and say 'There's your model, my lads'.

Who are your heroes? asked Jo. Grandfather and Napoleon.

I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

Once we were a people who left no tracks. Now we are different. We print ourselves deeply on the earth. We build roads. The ruts and skids of our wheels bite deep and the bush recedes. We make foundations for our buildings and sink wells beside our houses. Our shoes are hard and where we go it is easy to follow. I have left my own tracks, too. I have left behind these words.

Having discarded several older partners, the young man had no real business mentors, heroes, or role models and was beholden to no one.

William Avery Rockefeller possessed the dash and virility that every young boy dreams of in a father.

With one check, Rockefeller might have relieved their anxiety forever, but he wanted to avert excessive dependence and keep alive a creative ambiguity about his intentions.

when prohibited from talking about money directly to Rockefeller, Harper circumvented the ban by praying aloud for money in his presence.

Poison-pen artists on both sides wrote vitriolic essays that were overtly partisan, often paid scant heed to accuracy, and sought a visceral impact.

He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.

Through such trusts, he would convert financiers from servants to masters of their clients.

He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.

Rockefeller's sisters played a limited role in his adult life.

Rockefeller, who, along with his son, reserved the right to designate the use of two-thirds of the money given.

Right on the eve of Tidewater's success, Rockefeller decided that he might recoup in the political arena what he was on the verge of losing in the economic sphere.

The church would have been devastated without the Rockefeller money and torn apart by the scandal.

What he said, what he thought, and what he felt, came from his mother, but what he did came from his father, with the addition of a great caution generated by early unpleasantness.

Yet Junius never saw how much his own unbending style and unrealistically high standards had contributed to Pierpont's slavish dedication to work.