Quotes About Influence

Power resides where men believe it to reside.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.

Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

I think anyone that grew up in the '70s and '80s grew up with Bob Barker and Wink Martindale and I think that was just always... when you were a game show host, you were the man of the hour.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

[On Napoleon:] One has the impression of an imperious wind blowing about one's ears when one is near that man.

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

The woman has circumvented man in a variety of ways in her unconsciously subtle ways, as the man has vainly and equally consciously struggled to thwart the woman in gaining ascendancy over him.

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.