Quotes About Influence

You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

When a man believes that deciding the fate of others  will grant him control of his own life, he has left the path of reason.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

Poetry can be written only because it has been written.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.

Unfortunately, it is also true that the age's interests often color the past with unhistoric hues.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.

Education is the mother of leadership.

I wanted to curl up in her lap and stay there forever. I wanted to be her. She was raising me, cultivating me, molding me into a far better version of me than I could have ever dreamed up, let alone lived out, on my own. (149)

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People are not merely the product of a zeitgeist; Shakespeare is not just an Elizabethan writer.

Kautilya makes Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa

Often the future is shaped not by what we remember but by what we forget.

Jainas have always taken vegetarianism to the greatest extremes, taking pains to avoid injuring even tiny insects, and this too heavily influenced Hindus. The breakaway groups not only abhorred sacrifice but also rejected the Veda as revelation and disregarded Brahminical teachings and Brahminical claims to divine authority,32 three more crucial points that distinguished them from Hindus, even from those Hindus who were beginning to take up some of the new doctrines and practices.

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.

SCOOP: Peter, do people like you ever wonder what it's all for? PETER: People like you run the world. You decide what it's all for.