Quotes About Influence

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

Man is more powerful than matter.

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.

The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.

Man is a magnet, and every line and dot and detail of his experiences come by his own attraction.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

The passions of men are commonly more potent than their reason.

God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.