Quotes about Influence

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials but the ones with the concern.

Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

I'd hate to say, if I wasn't running, the television networks would be doing less than half the business.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can't refuse.

In fact, I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

But we can influence (not compel) each other's choices through the mediating channels of imagination and emotion. So can angels. They can't put judgments in your mind or choices in your will, but they can put images in your imagination and feelings in your heart. (Feelings don't compel you either; your will can choose whether to follow your feelings or not.)

What is voluntary comes from the will; what is forced comes to the will from outside and prevents it from doing what it will.