Quotes about Influence

Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

I'm a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It's been a more important, more substantial part of American life.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

Just as darkness cannot put out a candle, evil has no real power over goodness.

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

The best things that have been written, almost, are by Catholics during the counter Reformation: Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, St. Theresa of ?vila.....great stuff.