Quotes about Influence

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

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

I never tire of reading Tom Paine .

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Persuasion is better than force.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

A man is known by the company he keeps.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.

Wanting to sound like other people has its temptations. There are inherited habits of speech guaranteed to make us sound authoritative, intelligent, worldly, appropriately grateful, or deeply moved.