Quotes About Influence

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

Heredity and Environment are the master-influences of the organic world. These have made all of us what we are. These forces are still ceaselessly playing upon all our lives. And he who truly understands these influences; he who has decided how much to allow to each; he who can regulate new forces as they arise, or adjust them to the old, so directing them as at one moment to make them cooperate, at another to counteract one another, understands the rationale of personal development.

It is the man who is the missionary, it is not his words. His character is his message.

El poder de la voluntad no transforma al hombre. El Amor, sí.

How often we have felt something within us impelling us to do something which we would not have conceived of by ourselves, or enabling us to do something which we could not have done alone. "It is God which worketh in you." This great simple fact

If events change men, much more persons. No man can meet another on the street without making some mark upon him. We say we exchange words when we meet; what we exchange is souls. And when intercourse is very close and very frequent, so complete is this exchange that recognizable bits of the one soul begin to show in the other's nature, and the second is conscious of a similar and growing debt to the first.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Every environment is a cause. Its effect upon me is exactly proportionate to my correspondence with it. If I correspond with part of it, part of myself is influenced. If I correspond with more, more of myself is influenced; if with all, all is influenced. If I correspond with the world, I become worldly; if with God, I become Divine.

Genetics plays a role in determining who gets an anxiety disorder, what type it is (e.g., worry, compulsive

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

One of my illustrious predecessors.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as we are by companions.

It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debt.

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which were causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct; business was departing from its old-time substantial soundness; a general letting down of standards was felt everywhere.