Quotes About Influence

As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...

The occupation of Japan was the last immodest exercise in the colonial conceit known as "the white man's burden."2

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

All ideology can be embraced if the leader dresses well.

A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

The two qualities of Friendship so important for a leader to possess and instill in team members are respect and camaraderie.

The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today." —

Before You Can Lead Others, You Must Be Able to Lead Yourself.

There is also the professional mentor, a person whose success in his or her career can be a source of practical wisdom and inspiration. This success might be mea sured in material gain or far-reaching influence, or in lives touched and relationships fostered. These mentors can offer a model for good business, ethical practices, and effective work habits, and they often provide the motivation we need to seize whatever opportunities come our way.

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics

there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.

No written word nor spoken plea Can teach our youth what they should be. Nor all the books on all the shelves. It's what the teachers are themselves.

I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

Three days in Prince Charming's company and Agatha softened into the woman she'd been in Assisi. More smiles. Fewer frowns. Not so quick to criticize. She paused in her opinions to consider how they'd strike James. She paused in her eating to cast admiring glances his way. And now there she sat with a rare look of contentment on her face, her smile beaming up at James in the pulpit. Never in his life had Father Finn witnessed so clearly the transforming power of love.

The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.

One small shift in the way we each conduct ourselves, and the crystal lattice structure of the world is already different. In this way, we are the world, and when we take responsibility for our small but not insignificant part of it, the whole is already different—the flowering we manifest emotionally and in every other way of some importance, potentially enormous.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON

The whole point of this book, and of MBSR, is that there is a lot that you can do to gently, lovingly, and firmly—through non-striving and non-doing, coupled with doing when taking action with awareness is called for—influence how things unfold across the life span, tilting them in the direction of greater well-being, self-compassion, and wisdom to whatever degree possible, always unknown. HOW

Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.