Quotes About Influence

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

It's my world, you all just live in it.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

We all mold one another's dreams. We all hold each other's fragile hopes in our hands. We all touch others' hearts.

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

When you frown everyone looks down, but when you smile the whole world smiles with you.

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved?

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only de-motivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.