Quotes About Influence

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Highest Providence often works a wonderful miracle: that of having evil men make others who are evil to become good.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?

The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.