Quotes About Influence

If Washington was unable to bring prosperity, stability, and meaningful democracy to Latin America, a region that falls squarely within its own sphere of influence and whose population shares many of its values, then what are the chances that it will do so for the world?

This is a campaign that will go all the way to the convention He (Bernie Sanders) will stay in this race even if she is mathematically winning. He will influence what is in the platform and what Clinton says at the convention.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Love, like gravity, which could move across time and dimensions.

Part of being a Jedi is setting an example." -Corran Horn to Anakin Solo

parvenus, relied on money of questionable antecedents

All my fellows, why license is not deposed on the beautiful eyes of a beautiful lady? They fire at men like a bullet. They cut as surely as the sword.

When women take charge, things start to get out of control really fast.

What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

A. B. Bruce summarizes this point: "The careful, painstaking education of the disciples secured that the Teacher's influence on the world should be permanent, that His Kingdom should be founded on deep and indestructible convictions in the minds of a few, not on the shifting sands of superficial impressions on the minds of many."1

Robert Coleman's challenge: "One must decide where he wants his ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of his life in a few chosen ones who will carry on his work after he has gone? Really, it is a question of which generation we are living for.

Every Christian must see themselves as the link to the next generation," writes William Barclay.

Jesus had enough vision to think small. Focusing did not limit his influence — it expanded it. When Jesus ascended to the Father, he knew that there were at least eleven who could minister under the authority of his name, an elevenfold multiplication of his ministry. Robert Coleman captures the heart of Jesus' methodology when he writes, "[Jesus'] concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes but with men the multitudes would follow.

It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.

Parents will claim a Christian identity which their kids will slough off by young adulthood.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

The world doesn't get better on its own. It gets better because people make it better: penny by penny, vote by vote, and one lesson at a time. So: Start where you are. Use what you have. Help who you can.

One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others

Together, we create the healing or the suffering, the peace or the war.

we can no longer consider ourselves merely onlookers who have no effect on the world that we're observing.

Thus, it doesn't take many people to anchor a new way of thinking or believing

different intentions produced different effects

Both science and mysticism describe a force that connects everything together and gives us the power to influence how matter behaves—and reality itself—simply through the way we perceive the world around us.

We need to be shaping our kids into arrows that will fly straight to the target God has set for them. If we're not carefully shaping and aiming our arrows, others will try to steal them and shape them for their use. What's worse, they will aim our children at targets of their own choosing. We should never be surprised if we are wounded by the members of our own family, if we have allowed sworn enemies of Christ to aim them.