Quotes About Influence

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

Indeed, Hilda was always putting her oar in, constituting herself the voice of conscience; she was a task-mistress, leading the chorus, undefined, unrecognised, but clearly felt, of those who thought he ought to try more, do more, be more, than he had it in him to try, or do, or be.

And I liked Ted Burgess in a reluctant, half-admiring, half-hating way. When I was away from him I could think of him objectively as a working farmer whom no one at the Hall thought much of. But when I was with him his mere physical presence cast a spell on me, it established an ascendancy which I could not break. He was, I felt, what a man ought to be, what I should like to be when I grew up.

Eminent positions make eminent men greater and little men less.

It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love at all.

The shortest and best way of making your fortune is to let people clearly see that it is their interest to promote yours.

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform ourselves to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she has some secret and more irresistible charms than those of beauty.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.

If vanity does not overthrow all virtues, at least she makes them totter.

Kings make men as they do pieces of money; they put what value they please on them, and we are compelled to receive them according to the value put on them, and not according to their true worth.

The character of a man's native country is as strongly impressed on his mind as its accent is on his tongue.

Nothing is so catching as example.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

We have no more control over the duration of our passions than we do over the duration of our life.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

Chaque moderne porte en soi une petite Église infaillible dont il est le Christ et le Pontife et la grosse affaire est d'attirer le plus grand nombre possible de paroissiens.

I tried to warn her," Linda said, "but you could tell she'd gotten into it. She changed. She began hanging around with undesirable types, rough, tough people. I'd see her in bars and she always seemed to go after the street people.

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Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.