Quotes about Influence

A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

The influence of the senses has, in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world, the sign of insanity. Yet, time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul.

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

The man is the head of the house but the woman is the neck that turns the head.

Whatever limits us,we call Fate

Spiritual force is stronger than material force; thoughts rule the world.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.