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Quotes About Influence

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Japan redefined world power. They showed you could become a world power without having a military.
~ Patricia Schroeder
Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
~ Paul Valery
All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.
~ Peace Pilgrim
Fear not, dear cousin. In madness there is great power
~ Pen Densham
Opus Dei is an efficient machine run to achieve world power.
~ Penny Lernoux
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.
~ Peter Buffett
I'm Rally of Unionist Separist Extremes, sometimes known as the R.U.S.E. … It's the party at present in power.
~ Peter Ustinov
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
~ Philip Yancey
He can do most who has most power.
~ Plautus
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
~ Propertius
People have power to make a difference in their lives.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.
~ Orrin Woodward
I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
~ Ovid
For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.
~ Rachel Hartman
The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
~ Rajneesh
Power educates the potentate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson