Quotes About Influence

This is what we Mexicans do:we take what exists and we make it our own.

Self-sacrifice is a power issue: inappropriate sacrifice is self-defeating and even destructive because it causes you to lose your power.

My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.

People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.

A legacy is not about what you did while you were there it is what happens when you are gone

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.