Quotes About Influence

The person who had the greatest influence in my life was my dad, who was a wonderful small businessman, devoted to his family, devoted to the local church.

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

We are all masters of our own destinies.

Stop it now and take control. Write this on a card and pin it up where you can see it... MY THOUGHTS CONTROL MY LIFE!

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

NO I haven't read 50 Shades of Grey - I've been close enough to Jay Leno in real life.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.