Quotes About Influence

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

What its children become, that will the community become.

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit.

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Every man is the son of his own works.

The child is father to the man.

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally among mankind.

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print; the main thing is still to make history, not to write it.

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

As the husband is, the wife is.