Quotes About Influence

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn't exist.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

You can crush a man with journalism.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

The greatest weakness in the church today is that the servants of God keep looking over their shoulder for the approval of men.

You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.