Quotes About Influence

There were three things that could fundamentally change a person: time, alcohol, and managing a bureaucracy.

Los hombres ofenden antes al que aman que al que temen.

No es preciso que un príncipe posea todas las virtudes citadas, pero es indispensable que aparente poseerlas

Sucede siempre que las armas ajenas o se caen de los hombros del príncipe, o le pesan, o le oprimen.

Licenció el antiguo ejército y creó uno nuevo; dejó las amistades viejas y se hizo de otras; y así, rodeado por soldados y amigos adictos, pudo construir sobre tales cimientos cuanto edificio quiso; y lo que tanto le había costado adquirir, poco le costó conservar.

Los hombres se ganan mucho mejor con las cosas presentes que con las pasadas, y cuando en las presentes hayan provecho las gozan sin inquirir nada.

An Anglisc oath is like water. It pours into every part of you, every crevice. You can't hold any piece apart from it.

Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força

The Invisible mom: "As mothers, we are BUILDING great cathedrals. We cannot be seen if we're doing it right. And one day, it is very possible that the world will MARVEL, not only at what we have built, but at the BEAUTY that has been added to the world by the SACRIFICES of invisible women.

In her own uniquely spirited way, she had pierced his armor and burrowed unerringly into his heart

She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

It's strange what the heart can do when the mind is giving the directions.

And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.

My mother was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.

And then I thought: perhaps that is what it means to be a father- to teach your child to live without you. If so no one was a greater father than I.

Perhaps that is what it means to be a father--to teach your child to live without you. If so, no one was a greater father than I.

But in the end, it isn't up to the writer to decide how his or her work will be used.

I was like a trashcan. I took everything.

He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment.

He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.

And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.