Quotes About Influence

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships.

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

We would not listen to those who were wont to say the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the voice of the mob is near akin to madness.

The public! why, the public's nothing better than a great baby.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.