Quotes About Influence

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

Being popular is important. Otherwise, people might not like you.

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

You can vitally influence your life from within by auto-suggestion. The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The father of his country.

Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Thy wish was father to that thought.

If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.

She was not a woman likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

How forcible are right words!

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.