Quotes About Influence

You are in control of how you set the tone of your day.

You've got to be taughtBefore it's too lateBefore you are six, or seven, or eightTo hate all the people your relatives hateYou've got to be carefully taught.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Authority is quite degrading

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.

It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence. The

It is not the thing we spend the most time on that moulds us most; the greatest element is the thing that exerts most power.