Quotes about Influence

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

I would suggest that faith is everyone's business. The advance or decline of faith is so intimately connected to the welfare of a society that it should be of particular interest to a politician.

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love....

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration;—feelings too Of unremembered pleasures; such, perhaps, As have made no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.