Quotes About Influence

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

I'll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn't have a choice...

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.

What you do to-day that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.

My fighting gospel is T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. I am never without it.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.