Quotes about Influence

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The first line of defense against toxicity in the world must therefore be launched by believers who practice self-control.

It's not enough to survive, a lifelong love is all about thriving in a ministry-minded marriage that impacts others.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

One man with God is a majority.

First, earn the right to get their attention; then show them Jesus — perhaps not with words but always with action.

What consumes your mind controls your life.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

The United States wore empire on its brow

This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore- announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror to the ship.