Quotes About Influence

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.

There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

There are only two forces that unite men fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.