Quotes About Influence

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

I have a fan base worldwide, man. I think they're really down for me. That's how I got signed - 30,000 fans retweeting Rick Ross.