Quotes about Influence
All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
— Abraham Lincoln
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
I never tire of reading Tom Paine .
— Abraham Lincoln
Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.
— Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
— Abraham Lincoln
Persuasion is better than force.
— Aesop
Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
— Aesop