Quotes About Influence

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

Spiritual influence never coincided with material affluence.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

I always think that we live, spiritually, By what others have given us in the significant hours of our life. These significant hours do not announce themselves as coming, but arrive unexpected.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense good around you.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.