Quotes About Influence

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

I learned from my teachers but became through my music

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.

Who am I? I'm a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.