Quotes about Influence
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
— Epictetus
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
— Euripides
Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
— Barack Obama
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