Quotes about Influence
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
— GK Chesterton
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
— Abraham Lincoln
In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.
— Abraham Lincoln
What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man.
— Albert Camus
There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.
— Alexander Hamilton
Man's word is God in man.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
— Andrew Jackson
Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene
— Barack Obama
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— CS Lewis
To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.
— CS Lewis