Quotes About Influence

The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.

Money is nothing more than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply idle.

It does influence every part of your life and it influences every decision you make. (speaking about faith)

What you believe has a much greater impact on your life than what anybody else believes.

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

Persuasion is better than force.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

The tongue has the power of life and death.