Quotes About Influence

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Our world needs less gurus, and more teachers. Gurus are about helping themselves become successful. Teachers are about helping others become successful.

Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else

Let it be love, not the power of position that guides you for your success.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

Intention has little power, if any - it´s what you DO that has the power to change your life and the world around you.

It's unwise to be a backseat driver, passenger or bystander in your own life.

If you want to be successful, you have to surround yourself with successful people or successful minds

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day.

The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

I'm a teacher. A teacher is someone who leads. There is no magic here. I do not walk on water. I do not part the sea. I just love children.