Quotes about Influence
We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
— Oswald Chambers
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One, they were angry at the state of affairs and, two, they were people of faith.
— Leymah Gbowee
While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.
— St. Augustine
True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing perhaps affects man's character more than the company he keeps.
— JC Ryle
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
— Napoleon Hill
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— St. Augustine