Quotes About Influence

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. "He would have been a better man under different circumstances." Gen looked at him. "True enough," he said. "But does a good man let his circumstances determine his character?

Is there any other situation in life where people feel so free to tell you what to do, short of checking you in to rehab?

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!

A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons!

Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!

Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

High positions are full of low people!

Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.