Quotes About Influence

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

he had had an offer for me to do television commercials for an organization that sold margarine. "I know this isn't the kind of thing you had in mind," he pointed out, "but if a conservative firm feels that you can sell their

A real picture of any human being is interesting in itself, and it is especially interesting when we can follow the play of other personalities upon that human being and perhaps get a picture of a group of people and of the influence on them of the period in which they lived.

Niemand kann Dir ein Minderwertigkeitsgefühl aufzwingen ohne Deine Bereitschaft dazu.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Each of us, ultimately, is responsible in large part for the welfare of his community, for the kind of government he has, for the world he lives in.

I became a much more ardent citizen and feminist than anyone about me in the intermediate years would have dreamed possible. I had learned that if you wanted to institute any kind of reform, you could get far more attention if you had a vote than if you lacked one.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

I had taken away my own time and added it to his to make him more powerful.

Even Tolstoy is an insignificant shadow if he takes a stroll with Anna Karenina.

Quiero que ella esté, por eso escribo. Quiero que borre, que añada, que colabore en nuestra historia volcando en ella, según su inspiración, las cosas que sabe, que dijo o que pensó

Lila appeared in my life in first grade and immediately impressed me because she was very bad.

Maybe I should erase Lila from myself like a drawing from the blackboard, I thought, for, I think, the first time. I felt fragile, exposed, I couldn't spend my time following her or discovering that she was following me, either way feeling diminished. I immediately went to find her.

Parole: con quelle si fa e si disfa come si vuole.