Quotes About Influence

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

Nixon didn't mellow with his success, he became embittered by it.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Kind words produce their images on men's souls.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.