Quotes about Influence

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

It is the mind that makes the body.

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

But what marvel that I was thus carried away to vanities, and went out from Thy presence, O my God, when men were set before me as models.

For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

Preaching is truth through personality.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.