Quotes About Influence

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.

What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Rise above your circumstances, change the world one person at a time starting with you, and be the inspiration you've been searching for.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

The men who make history have not time to write it.