Quotes About Influence

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

It was not recklessness when you risked nothing, when what you did made no difference to anyone, not even to yourself.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Reward systems, such as those mediated by dopamine, also destabilize during adolescence in order to allow for the creation of new attachments, behaviors, and goals. This search for purpose and meaning makes adolescents more vulnerable to good and bad social influences

Education is cumulative, and it affects the breed. —Plato

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

Há palavras que são pronunciadas com a simples intenção de agir sobre os outros homens e de produzir algum efeito: o que sucede também quando se escreve. Elas não têm valor: as únicas palavras que contam são as pronunciadas tendo em vista a verdade e não o resultado.

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

I've gone through my life drawing from my experiences both positive and negative to try and influence others for the good.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

Clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

You can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.