Quotes About Influence

And the influence of their peers can be utterly overwhelming. As their closest friends succumb to the trend of G.O.Y., many children feel pressured to match them for the sake of popularity and acceptance. And sadly, instead of stepping in to be the voice of reason, many parents are feeding into this cultural trend. Many

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political influence, but the easiest way into the aristocracy – then as now – was through marriage. Most aristocrats married other ones, but occasionally a commoner might get lucky, just as sometimes happens today. Many

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

When the slave auctioneer asked him what he was skilled at, Diogenes said "At governing people," and, pointing to a well-dressed buyer, he said "Sell me to that man, for he wants a master.

I try not to live in the past. But sometimes the past lives in me.

It was not, as some suggest, Calvinism that made Scots hard: it was Scottish character that made Calvinism, already congenial to the national spirit, even more rock-ribbed than its Genevan counterpart.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

Henry: I am sorry you're not fonder of me, lad. Your father always said, "Be fond of stronger men." Philip: No wonder he loved everyone.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

Human beings today ... are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City [London's Wall Street], the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that.

Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

What people think about God, Jesus Christ, and the Church cannot be separated from their own social and political status in a given society.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

Ideas we don't know we have, have us.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

You can take the vampire out of the rabbit but you can't take the rabbit out of the vampire.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.