Quotes About Influence

The most important factor in admissions decisions was in fact the interview.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind

The world will, in the end, follow only those who have despised as well as served it.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

When I'm long dead and gone, people will be falsely attributing made-up quotes to me on internet pages and memes.

Never see a wretched little heavy-eyed mite sitting on the edge of a chair against your study wall without saying to yourselves, "perhaps this boy is he who, if I am not careful, will one day tell the world what manner of man I was." If even two or three schoolmasters learn this lesson and remember it, the preceding chapters will not have been written in vain.

Theobald had proposed to call him George after old Mr Pontifex, but strange to say, Mr Pontifex over-ruled him in favour of the name Ernest. The word 'earnest' was just beginning to come into fashion, and he thought the possession of such a name might, like his having been baptised in water from the Jordan, have a permanent effect upon the boy's character, and influence him for good during the more critical periods of his life.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

It is no diminution of power not to be able to do things which are no object of power.

The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

Whoever shall review his life will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

How small, of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,Our own felicity we make or find.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.