Quotes About Influence

I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think.

Well, now I know I can control my tongue, my temper, and my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic, or luck. I can't make good things happen. I can't keep anybody safe. I can't influence the future and I can't fix up the past. What a relief.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.

A great event, miraculous as it may be, if it happened only once, will hardly be able to dominate forever the mind of man.

The prophetic word creates, shapes, changes, builds, and destroys (see Jeremiah 1:10).

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

Semua orang bisa tahan dengan kesengsaraan, tapi bila kau ingin mengetahui karakter seseorang, berilah dia kekuasaan.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than ehe who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .

Lincoln on Grant: He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

All that I am or Hope to be I owe to My Mother