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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. – Amos Bronson Alcott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. – Amos Bronson Alcott	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Kenneth Hartley Blanchard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. – Barbara Colorose	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men. – Ron Dart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. – Edward Morgan Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. – Henry George	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. – John B. Gough	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. – Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ. – J. Arthur Lewis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dreams have as much influence as actions. – Stephane Mallarme	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king – Eliza Mother Stewart	added by anonymous 14 years ago
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. – Lord Byron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. – John Fletcher	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. – Carl Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence. – Harold Laki	added by anonymous 14 years ago
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. – J. A. Spender	added by anonymous 14 years ago
First, you're under the influence of being: that's the greatest addiction ever! – Cristian Andrei Nica	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pathway to building a legacy of fearless influence is not spanned by rainbow hue or prettily lined by daisies. On the contrary, it is shaped by our ability to grow less in our eyes in order to grow more in what we do. – Joseph Nyangon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The world can never be in the state of right order, strong government, and good influence unless London is truly and literally established as its capital. – Kedar Joshi	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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