Quotes About Influence

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

You can lead mankind into the gold mines of the mind and into the diamond fields of the soul, and the secret lies in the words you speak.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

But here we may well ask what we are living for - if we are living to give up to the influence of environment, visible or invisible, or if we are living to attain such full control over the powers and talents that are within us, that we can not only control, modify and perfect environment, but also so perfectly control ourselves that we can become all that nature intends that we should become.

The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.

What we love in others we not only awaken in others, but we develop those very things more or less in ourselves.

in the United States, where public schools are run by local lay authorities, Churches still exert important influence, by way of school boards and other supervising bodies. Their involvement is weaker in Europe, where religious neutrality of the public school system is strictly enforced and respected;

Even in the United States, where public schools are run by local lay authorities, Churches still exert important influence, by way of school boards and other supervising bodies. Their involvement is weaker in Europe, where religious neutrality of the public school system is strictly enforced and respected;

History is a product of human agency, not blind fate.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

Example has more followers than reason.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

La lanterne des autres ne sert qu'à nous égarer.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

who shared his passion

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

Hate is powerful. Hate can be eternal. Hate can be manipulated. And hate can be created.

Not all who become leaders crave the power that goes with it.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

There's nothin' more dangerous than a boy with charm.

people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.