Quotes About Influence

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name.

You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...

If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

But what you do in your child's first five years of life—not just the first year—profoundly influences how he or she will behave as an adult.

The effect is so powerful that what you eat during the last stages of pregnancy can influence the food preferences of your baby.

think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.

Yes, your children are constantly observing you. They are profoundly influenced by what they record. And that can quickly turn from funny to serious, especially when mommy and daddy start fighting.

One cannot affect another without being affected themselves. - Kathryn Ferentchak

Feeling leads to understanding, understanding leads to sympathizing, sympathizing leads to action, and with action, we can change the world. - Maya Dehlin

Berlusconi is us," as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago puts it.

by discouraging people from thinking for themselves and feeding them hopes of happiness in the next world, it sought to make them content with their lowly condition in this one.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Each person leaves a legacy -- a single, small piece of herself, which makes richer each individual life and the collective life of humanity as a whole.

When it comes to self-worth, it pays to watch out for sabotaging voices, particularly those masquerading behind "positive" affirmations or conditional gratitude. Real self-worth—the type that stands the test of time—is built by decoupling our relationship with ourselves from all conditions. While your health or physical appearance may influence what you have—or even what you do—there is no intrinsic reason for it to shape who you are.

Everything we do matters. Our lives are sacred. There are no small players. There are no small tasks.

Jesus put it like this: You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. Others have come before you. Others will come after you. But this is your day. If God's kingdom is to manifest itself right now, it will have to be through you. God himself will not come to take your place. You are on a mission from God.