Quotes About Influence

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

Men are ruled by toys.

The world does not pay men for that which they "know". It pays them for what they do, or induce others to do.

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.