Quotes About Influence

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.