Quotes About Influence

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

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Men hesitate less to injure a man who makes himself loved than to injure one who makes himself feared, for their love is held by a chain of obligation which, because of men's wickedness, is broken on every occasion for the sake of selfish profit; but their fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

Iron sharpeneth man; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

The rich know not who is his friend.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

The gentleman is a Christian product.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.