Quotes About Influence

And indeed this was the best policy—for to submit and oblige was the governess's part, to consult their own pleasure was that of the pupils.

Habitual associates are known to exercise a great influence over each other's minds and manners. Those whose actions are for ever before our eyes, whose words are ever in our ears, will naturally lead us, albeit against our will—slowly—gradually—imperceptibly, perhaps, to act and speak as they do.

Because that is what your babies do, when they grow. They turn around and say it is all your fault.

I see her on a Sunday after lunch, and we spend a pleasant afternoon, and when I leave I find she has run through me like water.

I'll meet some people who'll treat me mean and I'll just pray that I'll never be like them. And then I'll meet some very nice people and I will take a little bit of them and make myself a better person.

High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion, not just ape my parents, as in the proverb "The apple never falls far from the tree.

Der Mann hat einen grossen Geist Und ist so klein von Taten!

Uma pessoa feliz tornará as outras felizes; uma pessoa com coragem e fé nunca morrerá na desgraça!

O ja, ich will nicht umsonst gelebt haben wie die meisten Menschen. Ich will den Menschen, die um mich herum leben und mich doch nicht kennen, Freude und Nutzen bringen. Ich will fortleben, auch nach meinem Tod. (S.238f.)

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does reflect on all Jews.

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To

I want to go on living even after my death!

but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say "I'm weak" and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: "Because it's much easier not to!

Y el que es feliz hace feliz a los demás; el que tiene valor y fe, nunca estará sumido en la desgracia.

In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan

And yet they are coming from me. I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion, not just ape my parents, as in the proverb 'The apple never falls far from the tree.

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.