Quotes about Influence

Any man who has been placed in the White House cannot feel that it is the result of his own exertions or his own merit. Some power outside and beyond him becomes manifest through him. As he contemplates the workings of his office, he comes to realize with an increasing sense of humility that he is but an instrument in the hands of God.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms.

Words, Sang Ly, are not only powerful, they are more valuable than gold.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.