Quotes About Influence

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

As the government is, such will be the man.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.