Quotes About Influence

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do.

I do believe he's the greatest, but forget about boxing - give that to Joe Louis, or somebody - I believe he's one of the greatest men I've ever met.

A wise man is a greater asset to a nation than a king.

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

Evil draws men together.

Asking me what I think of Oscar (Hammerstein) is like asking me what I think of the Yankees, Man o' War and Strawberry Sundaes.

For the unclean spirit enters easily into a man, and easily goes out from him.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.