We are working for the future. We are not concerned with the seeming victory of the moment but with the final triumph. With us the question is not what influence we can exert now but what power we can exercise 50 years hence, not how few men we have today but how many will arise […]
Influence Quotes
Churches do not stand for moral influence. Not a Christian minister preaches salvation by good behavior. What a poor business Roman Catholicism would do among men if it advertised to save only those who were temperate, upright, intelligent and moral.
The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got it.
All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection
What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the […]
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity – famine, earthquake, and plague – led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
