Quotes About Influence

Admire yourself and others will admire you', a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: 'Know thyself', which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.

For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.

so powerful is the influence of a truly great character on all that surrounds it.

Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you," an axiom a hundred times more useful in society nowadays than that of the Greeks, "Know thyself," a knowledge for which, in our days, we have substituted the less difficult and more advantageous science of knowing others.

This woman only became a criminal because she touched me. I am oozing with crime. She caught it off me as one may catch typhus, or cholera, or the plague!

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

chi ha compagno, ha padrone.4 But, at least, we are half-way there, since you already have one of the two votes you need. Leave it to me to get you the other, and I shall do my best.

a no nacer los malos pensamientos de una organización mala también, el crimen repugna a la naturaleza humana. Sin embargo, la civilización nos ha creado necesidades, vicios y falsos apetitos, cuya influencia llega tal vez a ahogar en nosotros los buenos instintos, arrastrándonos al mal.

The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.

Politikada, sevgili oÄŸlum, benim kadar siz de bilirsiniz ki insanlar yoktur, düÅŸünceler vard?r; duygular yoktur, ç?karlar vard?r; politikada bir adam öldürülmez, bir engel ortadan kald?r?l?r, iÅŸte hepsi bu.

A father's sufferings may affect great changes in the mind of a son.

Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.

vous autres, qui tenez le pouvoir, vous n'avez que les moyens que donne l'argent ; nous autres, qui l'attendons, nous avons ceux que donne le dévouement.

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.

In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed.

Quién sabe además si el genovés no era uno de esos hombres que tienen bastante talento para no saber nunca mas que lo que deben saber, ni creer nunca mas que lo que les importa creer?

Among worldly people manner is contagious.

a morar entre los hombres y tomar en la sociedad el rango, la influencia y el poder que dan en este mundo las riquezas, la principal y más fuerte palanca de que puede disponer la criatura humana.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Le courage est une des plus grandes séductions de l'homme sur la femme.

Si je n'étais pas amant, j'étais plus qu'un ami, plus qu'un frère; j'étais l'arbre auquel, pauvre lierre, elle s'abritait, j'étais le fleuve qui emportait sa barque à mon courant, j'étais le soleil d'où lui venait la lumière; tout ce qui existait d'elle existait par moi, et probablement le jour n'était pas loin où ce qui existait par moi existerait aussi pour moi.

It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing

N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.