Quotes About Influence

it is plain that thoughts, feelings, and behavior beget like thoughts, feelings, and behavior.

Her brother-in-law Ninian Edwards said bluntly, "She could make a bishop forget his prayers.

Words are mere tools of the mind

We are only underlings of fate if we choose to let the wills of others shape our lives." -Thomas Richards

Estamos sujetos al destino solo si elegimos permitir que las voluntades de los demás den forma a nuestras vidas.

There will always be a boogie man. Politicians need one.

I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.

Alles, was wir als Erwachsene werden, geht darauf zurück, wer wir als Kinder waren, wie wir behandelt wurden und was unsere Ideen und Werte geprägt hat. Wir sind, wer wir waren - nur größer.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." —Jackie Robinson

Whereas books, once read, become fully a part of us.

Money fixes everything, even nature, if there is enough of it.

The best books were those uninhabited by those who wrote them.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Raising three human beings who will go out and change the world.

She had yet to experience the effects of anybody's sex appeal, though she greatly admired Larry Bird—a fact that could not possibly have had anything to do with his looks.

I had developed, early on, the habit of low expectations, and of letting my life be directed by whatever person happened to come along who seemed to know better than I did what they were doing.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Pocas veces, por desgracia, una mujer fue tan decisiva; no es de extrañar, pues, que [Cleopatra VII Philopátor], proclamada reencarnación viviente de la diosa Isis, se ganara a pulso su entrada majestuosa en el cielo de los faraones

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won't be you; you can't afford them.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.

Han visto cómo se enriquece el que detenta el poder?

Es sabido que en política internacional las imposiciones deben sustentarse por las armas. Dicho de otro modo: cada nación tiene la importancia de su ejército. El que mea más lejos es el más poderoso y puede imponer su voluntad a los demás.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.