Quotes About Influence

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

The "C" students run the world.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.