Quotes About Influence

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

The sign of a great man is that the closer you get, the greater he seems.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.

Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thou­sand men.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

A holy life is in itself a wonderful power, and will make up for many deficiencies; it is in fact the best sermon a man can ever deliver.

What intrigues me is the difference in how women experience power, and how men do.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.