Quotes About Influence

When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

A company is judged by the president it keeps.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.