Quotes About Influence

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

People follow courage, not titles.

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Only when you find the courage to say something to someone that might influence a change in your behavior, does that behavior change.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'

It is good to be Compared with the best player [Pele]. But my dad told me about Garrincha's style as he moved forward, went up, attacked and dribbled. Garrincha's style is more similar to Neymar's.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.