Quotes About Influence

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.

Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

I am the rich man's guru.

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.