Quotes About Influence

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

If you don't wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.

The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The history of the world is but a biography of great men.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.