Quotes About Influence

The gods play games with men as balls.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.

The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.

Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him, all his life long.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Men make history. History does not make the man.