Quotes About Influence

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influence the quality of my days.

Under normal periods, any man's success hinges about 5 percent on what others do for him and 95 percent on what he does.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

The public has a taste for supping with the great.

Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.

Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.

Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellows. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions, and very persistent and determined in action thereafter.

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.