Quotes About Influence

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Gifts are hooks.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.

The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

If I am a great man, then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.

The glory that was Greece.

Custom is second nature, and no less powerful.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.