Quotes About Influence

She reminded him that in the past he had been fond of quoting a French maxim, "On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme," meaning, essentially, "One leads by calm.

Oliver Cromwell in 1653: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!

But you will ride it—instead of being driven before it—Thank Heaven that you are there, & at the helm of our destiny

Let our hopes and aspirations awaken forces which in all time to come shall influence the welfare, the dignity, and the freedom of mankind. - Grover Cleveland

Stature [was] a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.

The Fringes of Power; the work

Recognizing that confidence and fearlessness were attitudes that could be adopted and taught by example, Churchill issued a directive to all ministers to put on a strong, positive front.

Göring to smoke while in the cockpit. Hitler, however, forbade him from being photographed while he smoked, fearing the influence such publicity might have on the morals of German youths.

Hitler, however, forbade him from being photographed while he smoked, fearing the influence such publicity might have on the morals of German youths.

On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme

We do to our children what was done to us.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

We have graft today. A hundred years ago we had graft. We probably have more today than we had a hundred years ago. For three generations now people have been following reformers, fighting all sort of graft.—And what has it brought them, sweetheart? Not a damn thing, except more graft than when they started

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Before you try to keep up wiht the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

children are trained to want to do as the society says they have to do.

It is this that makes people so willing 'to follow brash, strong-looking demagogues with tight jaws and loud voices: those who focus their measured words and their sharpened eyes in the intensity of hate, and so seem most capable of cleansing the world of the vague, the weak, the uncertain, the evil. Ah, to give oneself over to their direction—what calm, what relief.

The important conclusion for us is that the groups use the leader sometimes with little regard for him personally, but always with regard to fulfilling their own needs and urges.

The thing that has to be explained in human relations is precisely the fascination of the person who holds or symbolizes power. There is something about him that seems to radiate out to others and to melt them into his aura, a "fascinating effect," as Christine Olden called it, of "the narcissistic personality"3 or, as Jung preferred to call him, the "mana-personality.

Cultural relativity is a pitiless weapon precisely because it sets our hero-systems up on end.

Be like father, but don't do like father

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

in order for this power to truly captivate us, it has to be generated in the creation of meaning and in social performance