He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Influence Quotes
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.
Influence, n. In politics, a visionary pquo’ given in exchange for a substantial pquid’.
Intention, n. The mind’s sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery… If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says… When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand. Then tell him what it is you want and point out the areas where you are in agreement and those […]
No single man, probably, has exercised a greater influence on the ideas, literature and art of the twentieth century than Freud.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you super add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
