Quotes About Influence

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Life after death means for us that part of our life that lives on in our children, in the influence that survives us after death, and the memories people have of us.

suppose he were to donate a laboratory to Brandeis or even to Harvard? The

Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.

Van zijn wieg tot zijn afwezige graf was de blijdschap die hij had verspreid steeds toegenomen. Eerst, bij zijn geboorte, waren alleen zijn ouders blij; later maakte hij het hele Duitse volk blij, vervolgens ook het Oostenrijkse; en toen hij stierf was de hele mensheid blij…

There is no self that exists independent of the forces that created it, and thus you cannot be held personally, or perhaps I should say morally, accountable for what you did or didn't do.

How far would have Moses gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make 'em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The 'C' students run the world.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt?