Quotes About Influence

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.

To lead, you must touch men's hearts.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

Man is man, and master of his fate.

Man's word is God in man.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

I left my mark on that man.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

No man is too good to be the athletic coach for youth.

The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I began quite early in life to sense the thrill a girl attains in supplying money to a man.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.