Quotes About Influence

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it

Money can't buy you friends; but you do get a better class of enemies.

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has 'never had a chance, poor devil', you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.