Quotes About Influence

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors.

One of the greatest captains of the age.

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones

We may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.

The rotten apple spoils his companions.

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.

some books against Deism fell into my hands ... it happened that they wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quote to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about.

On the whole, I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

Those who are feared are hated.

Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Si no quieres perderte en el olvido tan pronto como estés muerto, escribe cosas dignas de leerse, o haz cosas dignas de escribirse.

Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, "He...changed human beings by regarding them not as what they thought they were but as though they were what they wished to be, and as though the good in them was all of them

How could it be possible that one look from him cold turn me from a strong independent woman to a shy little girl? He was the living embodiment of romance, the hero in my own little fairy tale world.

Highly social animals like dogs and chimpanzees who live in small groups evolved to be more tolerant in subordinate roles. The fact that young bears behave more like young humans suggests common influences upon their social behaviour.

He was the quintessential practitioner of Jabotinsky's formula: Influence governments through public opinion, influence public opinion by appealing to justice, influence leaders by appealing to interests.

All stories are in conversation with other stories. —Neil Gaiman

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.