Quotes about Influence

Outside influences, outside circumstances, wind the MAN and regulate him. Left to himself, he wouldn't get regulated at all, and the sort of time he would keep would not be valuable. Some rare men are wonderful watches, with gold case, compensation balance, and all those things, and some men are only simple and sweet and humble Waterburys. I am a Waterbury.

A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to be a missionary, and goes to the innocent savage and to the civilized Japanese, and soils their minds. Whereupon they adopt immodesty, they conceal their bodies, they stop bathing naked together.

To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured ... in India only.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Almost always the creative, dedicated minority has made the world better.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt