Quotes About Influence

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Guai a coloro, dissi, che si servono dell'influenza che hanno su di un cuore per rapirgli le semplici gioie che esso sa procurare a se stesso!

La prima impressione ci trova ben disposti, e l'uomo è fatto in modo che gli si possono far credere le storie più avventurose; ma queste si imprimono subito così tenacemente che guai a chi voglia rimuoverle o cancellarle!

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

Did we force ourselves on you, or you on us?

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.