Quotes About Influence

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.

Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

So many of life's eventualitiesare beyond your control.Work out what things you caninfluence and come to a peacefulacceptance of the rest.

Unless you have a crystal ballyou don't know how thefuture is going to unfold.Focus on the things you caninfluence and don't fretover the rest.

My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.

The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

I dont believe God's called me to survive the world but to change it for His glory.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.