Quotes About Influence

It's hard enough to make changes when we want to, but to try to make someone else change when he or she doesn't want to is impossible

You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

Usually what we believe is only someone else's opinion that we've accepted and incorporated into our own belief system.

When We Are Very Little, We Learn How to Feel about Ourselves and about Life by the Reactions of the Adults Around Us It is the way we learn what to think about ourselves and about our world. Now, if you lived with people who were very unhappy, frightened, guilty, or angry, then you learned a lot of negative things about yourself and about your world.

All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past.

We give our power to others and use that excuse as our resistance to changing.

Children often respond to the mental atmosphere of the adults around them.

I am one with the very Power that created me, and this Power has given me the power to create my own circumstances.

You are the power in your world! You

All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.

Words have the power to shoot down or raise up. Sharp cutting words can whirl for years.

We are a mirror of our times.

Your beliefs become your thoughts Your thoughts become your words Your words become your actions Your actions become your destiny. Mahatma Ghandi," he said. "There's more, but I can't remember it all.

But they both knew that words were weapons too, and when fashioned into a story their power was almost limitless.

It's about what happens when gullibility and fear meet greed and power.

You can tell a lot about a man by his friends, or lack of them. Do they bring out the best in each other, or are they always gossiping, tearing others down? Keeping wounds alive?

Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.

Why do decent young men and women become bullies? Why do soldiers dream of being heroes but end up abusing prisoners and shooting civilians? Why do politicians become corrupt? Why do cops beat suspects senseless and break the laws they're meant to protect?

Long dead and buried in another town My mother isn't finished with me yet.

What people do for power. How they're willing to mutilate themselves, physically, intellectually, morally, for power and position.

Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful.

The very force of his personality both created and crippled. How much more could he have accomplished had he been kinder? But then, dynamism and kindness often don't go together…

Recruiters, for terrorist cells and police forces and armies, relied on this simple truth: if you got people young enough, they could be made to do just about anything.

Chief Superintendent Arnot might hold power, but Armand Gamache was the more powerful man.