Quotes About Influence

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.

There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire.

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Women are the real architects of society.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women.

There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed.

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.