Quotes About Influence

Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a litter better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

If you own this story, you get to write the ending.

Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.

I highly recommend Kilbourne's and Katz's DVDs—they've changed the way I see the world and myself. (Jean Kilbourne's latest DVD is Killing Us Softly 4,6 and Katz's DVD is titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.7)

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can't take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

I never would have believed a guy—any guy—could affect me like this.

Wellington, Jack had never cared about pleasing anyone but himself. Lord Geoffrey, his spendthrift, gamester father and Lord Foxhaven's second son, had died when Jack was but eight. Two years later, his mother married Sir Findlay Branch, a wealthy, stuffy baronet whose apparent mission in life was to eradicate Lord Geoffrey's

The Australian National Secretariat of Catholic Action, then little more than an idea in the making, needed a deputy for the director, Frank Maher. Santamaria's words—'so I said…"Yes", because I would have said yes to anything he asked'—echo down the years.7

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it. There is no neutral exchange.

We do not need to theorize about Jesus; we need to make him present in our time, our culture, and our circumstances. Only

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

It comes without concern for my neurotic need for acceptance. After all, I wasn't even aware it was happening. It has a life of its own. And it moves me deeply that, even inadvertently, I've participated in making someone's life a little bit better.

Bruce, on the other hand, was sometimes too clever for his own good. He was a tremendous influence on me, teaching me all about sports, Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Johnny Unitas and Gordie Howe.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

Some men would do better to stay poor," Francesca said. " Money only exaggerates their vulgarities.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

I can only control what I can control.

She filled my head with dreams, telling me I could become anything I wanted. I believed her so much I thought I could be white.

With my pen I will rule the world. You'll see, they'll call me the scourge of princes.

What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?

i feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. all the best of me belong to her, there is not a talent or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch.... about her teacher: ann sulivan.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

When we engage in what she terms a "high-power pose" where our bodies are more open and expansive—arms open as opposed to closed across our chest, standing straight with shoulders back as opposed to hunched with shoulders folded forward, occupying more space versus less—our brain and body respond by increasing testosterone and decreasing cortisol. Testosterone levels go up by 20 to 25 percent, and cortisol goes down by 20 to 25 percent.