Quotes About Influence

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps

To be a man, a boy must see a man

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

It's a Man's Man's Man's World

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.