Quotes About Influence

I'm sure you have seen corruption spreading like a disease... but it isn't really an infection. No one becomes corrupt because of the sins of another. They cannot catch it by mere exposure or by birth. All people choose for themselves.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

A belief in immortality not only consoles the individual, but it exerts a powerful influence in bringing peace between individuals. If one actually thinks that man dies as the brute dies, he will yield more easily to the temptation to do injustice to his neighbor when the circumstances are such as to promise security from detection. But if one really expects to meet again, and live eternally with those whom he knows today, he is restrained from evil deeds by the fear of endless remorse.

While human government exists the tendency to abuse power will remain.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Slaves are created with words, and so it is with words that we create, and set ourselves free.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

The true mark of a leader is not how many followers he has, but how he inspires them to greatness.

Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.

As parents, we have a chance when our children are young to turn them into good citizens rather than wait for the government to raise them for us.

Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.