Quotes About Influence

I may not touch a million lives, but I may touch the one that does.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words.

This did not mean that he had not been active in his own cause. On the contrary, he had been on the telephone all night, every night, feeding his advocates facts and phrases, suggesting sources of support and information, organizing telephone and mail campaigns, and above all guiding and nurturing journalists by reminding them, by tone of voice and vocabulary—though never in so many words—that he was the enemy of their enemies.

We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.

Wherever Mohammedanism has taken root, it has led at first to rapid and enthusiastic outbursts of vigor, but it seems gradually to sap the energy of the nations which adopt it, and leads, after a

Reasonable people maintain the world. Passionate people change it. And wise people guide the change process.

A. W. Tozer says, A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

Without our realizing it, we were trained to think that the most significant people are star athletes, actors, and musicians—the ones we applaud, those whose autographs others seek. They aren't. Not really. Most often, the people worth noting are the individuals who turn a "nobody" into a "somebody" but never receive credit.

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

Hay una línea de separación muy delgada entre el liderazgo responsable y el control dogmático.

The church can seldom resurrect what the home puts to death.

As we shall see, the best leaders are actually servants. Unselfishly

Any idea, no matter how bizarre, can seem mainstream if you're able to find a handful of others who will believe along with you.

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don't know it's there until it's gone away.

And because my employers agree with me, and they're the government, you're outvoted.

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.

The empire of the Pharaohs was old before Rome was a twinkling in Odysseus's eye, wise before China had been discovered, and over and done with before our founding fathers came down from Mount Olympus to give us the Bible and the US Constitution—

America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern. —Woodrow Wilson, 1919

Some knowledge is inherently corrupting

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority. —Lord Acton

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.

To make a lasting impact on the world's system, one must be distinct from it, not identical to it.

When it is said that it was done to please a woman, there ought perhaps to be enough to explain anything; for what a man will not do to please a woman is yet to be discovered.

Those who set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.