Quotes About Influence

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!'

He was a burning and a shining light.

Cheerfulness is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.

It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Men make laws; women make manners.

So long as the body is affected through the mind, no audacious device, even of the most manifestly dishonest character, can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield to it an implicit or even a partial faith.

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

I arose a mother in Israel.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Money and women. They're the two strongest things in the world. There are things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.