Quotes About Influence

In what manner does the countenace of the sky at the moment of a man's birth determine his character? It acts on the person during his life in the manner of the loops which a peasant ties at random around the pumpkins in his field: they do not cause the pumpkin to grow, but they determine its shape. The same applies to the sky: it does not endow man with his habits, history, happiness, children, riches, or a wife, but it moulds his condition....

We become what we become not only through our DNA or only through our environment, but through their interaction.

The closer he got to succeeding in his presidential campaign, the more Ted Kennedy fumbled.

One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

Communication is the sister of leadership

Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.

Perhaps one day they will add about you as their leader, "And you made a difference" That is the true reward of Leadership

There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good

Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one

No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.

A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Thomas—Jefferson—still surv—

If you don't control your mind, someone else will.

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.

Spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move... Mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve

Nobody can be anybody without somebodies around.

Friendship with children is the key to influencing them the most.

Friends transform each other's outlook to a completely new perspective. Let's yours be a positive one.

True friends influence the mindsets of their friends.