Quotes About Influence

At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

A tiny fly can choke a big man.

I don't know what I'd have become if I hadn't been a footballer; I wrote down 'dustbin man' on a careers questionnaire at school till my dad made me change it to 'joiner'.

Men make their own history but not in circumstances of their own choosing.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

A woman's sphere of influence is a unique sphere, one that cannot be duplicated by men.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.