Quotes About Influence

for every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the roots.

On the cover of Business Month, Gates's head would be satirically airbrushed onto a weight lifter's torso above the legend "The Silicon Bully: How Long Can Bill Gates Kick Sand in the Face of the Computer Industry?

all streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. humility gives it its power. if you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.

Virginia had taken the decisive step—this large and influential state ratified the Constitution but was committed to use her great influence to demand a bill of rights. The remaining states, both large (New York and North Carolina) and small (Rhode Island and the future state of Vermont), would ratify the Constitution and follow Virginia in insisting that individual rights be declared.

How to be one up—how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

A good general attack can be made by talking to your opponent about his own job, in the character of the kind of man who always tries to know more about your own profession than you know yourself.

Christianity and Islam are the two greatest religions today. They are the traditions that draw the atheists' ire. And they are the ones that are redrawing the geopolitical map.

As the shape and interior of the puzzle became clearer, those who possessed this information began to imagine controlling it. Empires exist because they can be conceived.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.

Great Light, the Enemy's power is so fragile! The devils can use only what we ourselves will give them. Do you see? Give them nothing and their power fails; it falls like a spent arrow, like a blade broken and blunted.

God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless—it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe.

Thus, the world is changed—not with a sword, but with a word.

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten.

It is a great thing to be a king, Hawk. A very great thing, indeed. But there is authority of a kind even kings must bend to. Discover this and whether you wear a torc of gold or beggar's rags, your name will burn forever in men's minds.

The fellowship of honorable men is a most potent force.

And I wondered if he knew how well, how naturally he led. Was it, in the end, so different leading men? Was it not much the same—picking out the trail, deciding the safest way, strengthening the unsure step with words of encouragement, guiding, going ahead, but not too far ahead—was not trailcraft much the same as kingcraft?

Both positive and negative thinking are contagious.

We are exactly what our history made us to be.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Self-confidence is contagious.

Limitations are like mirages created by your own mind. When you realise that limitation do not exist, those around you will also feel it and allow you inside their space.

A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.