Quotes About Influence

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Example has more followers than reason.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

If ... you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

The grandeur that was Rome.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.

I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. ... Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.