Quotes about Influence

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter. It all matters.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Your people are a mirror of your attitude. If you have a poor attitude, you can't expect your people to be upbeat.

A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.

Maximus remained a child of his time, a disciple of his master. But the fact that he was able to develop his own basic insight, in spite of such influences, makes him one of the greatest thinkers in Christian intellectual history.