Quotes About Influence

To believe that someone else is responsible for your emotional state is to give them a sort of psychic power over you they do not have...we really do generate our own feelings. No one else can do it for us. We respond and are responsible. To think other people are responsible for our feelings is to inhabit a billiard ball, inanimate universe.

The Battle of Tours in 732 CE stopped the encroachment of Islam into Christian Europe and divided the world into religious spheres of influence. The Crusades represented a hostile invasion of Christian power into Islamic strongholds

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Your legacy as an educator is always determined by what your students do. You change the world by empowering your students to do the same.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

Quando ficar ofendido dá poder às pessoas, elas ficam ofendidas facilmente.

The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.

Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.

Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now the unspeakable ignorance and inattention of mankind in respect to the influences which form human character.

Az emberek - akár mint uralkodók, akár mint polgárok - szeretik saját vélekedéseiket és elfogultságaikat viselkedési szabályként másokra erÅ'ltetni; s ezt a hajlamot az emberi természet legjobb és legrosszabb tulajdonságai is oly erÅ'sen táplálják, hogy aligha lehet majd valaha is mással, mint a hatalom hiányával kordában tartani...