Quotes About Influence

When did one man ever civilize a people?

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influences and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror.

Have you not observed that there is a lower kind of discretion and regularity, which seldom fails of raising men to the highest station in the court, the church, and the law?

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.

Man is remembered by his deeds.

Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Few men are admired by their servants.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

Men are led by trifles.