Quotes About Influence

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

Not a sentence or a word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you chose to be with, and the laws you choose to obey.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Little things affect little minds.

Example is more efficacious than precept.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.