Quotes About Influence

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.

Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.

The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.

Anger is smaller than the one behind him.

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

Money opens many doors.The door of the coffin, among others. (L'argent ouvre bien des portes. - Celle du cercueil entre autres.)

People are no longer afraid of him.The spirit and the time are with him. (Il ne fait plus peur. L'esprit et le temps sont avec lui.)"

Pilate listened to the crowd. What sailor listens to the swell ? (Pilate écouta la foule. - Quel marin écoute la houle ?)

The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l' avenir)

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Change begins at home

I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. . . . I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. . . . I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

You are in every line I have ever read.

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.