Quotes About Influence

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

We must judge religious movements, not by the men who make them, but by the men they make.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

Human beings are creators, flinging powerful images into the minds of their fellow men. And all of these images are built of tiny particles of thought.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?