Quotes About Influence

But-where in blue blazes did a thoroughbred collie ever pick up that bulldog grip?

LOIS MADDEN was happy, very, very happy—until some one told her she was not. Happiness is a mystic bud that a single breath can wake into riotous bloom or wither to a shrivel. And it has no existence except in its possessor's heart. That is why a breath, laden with a few silly cynicisms from a wise fool, was able to do all sorts of things to Lois Madden's gladness.

The absolute in reason and will is the greatest power which is given to men to attain; and it is by means of this power that what the multitude admires under the name of miracles, are effected.

Example is leadership.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others it's the only thing.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

Jesus was called to throw himself on the wheel of world history, so that, even though it crushed him, it might start to turn in the opposite direction. Tom Wright, The Lord and His Prayer (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1996), 69.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

La gente termina pareciéndose a sus amigos, por lo que es clave elegirlos bien.

Creer que porque uno sintió algo, ese algo de alguna manera logró colarse y depositarse en el sistema digestivo del otro.

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks.

The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.