Quotes About Influence

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

When Wealth walks in at the Door, the Press Agent comes in through the Window.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

You cannot drive people to do things which are right, but you can love them into doing them, if your example is of such a character that they can see you mean what you say.

There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord's territory and the devil's territory. If you will stay on the Lord's side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross to the devil's side of that line one inch you are in the tempter's power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord.

When the computers developed, they would take over a good deal of the burden of the politicians, and sooner or later would also take over their power,

You see a little bit of Astaire in everybody's dancing--a pause here, a move there. It was all Astaire's originally.

If you like something of someone else's, why not take it? The important thing is that it seem natural and fit in.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.,

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu