Quotes About Influence

Surround yourself with positive people.

People teach you two things, how to be and how not to be.

Children are permanently impressed only by the loyalties of their adult associates; precept or even example is not lastingly influential. Loyal persons are growing persons, and growth is an impressive and inspiring reality. Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.

Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.

Imagine who she would be if we unleashed her onto the world. I think she would rip the breath from all of us.

I´d read fantasy if they had simple names like Jane and Bob from Wagga," I say. "Why does it have to be Tehrana and Bihaad from the World of Sceehina?" Jimmy looks at my mother and rolls his eyes. "No wonder they call her bimbo behind her back." And my mum laughs. And because of that, Mark Viduka, the soccer player, stops being my brothers hero, and Luca and Pinocchio run after Jimmy like he´s their idol.

But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.

They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to me when someone asks them who is in charge.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

He remembers the times they'd walk toward him in the playground with that same look on their faces, but double in number with Siobhan and Tara. "It's the four horsewomen of the apocalypse," Jimmy Hailler would say. "They're going to make us do something we don't want to do." "We're not going to give in," Tom would say. But they did. Always.

Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.

She thinks she knows who I am because she thinks who I am is who she tells me I am.

Because who they were had always been determined by him

my dad goes along with it because no one in my family has ever pretended that my mother doesn't make all the decisions.

and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breathe for the rest of my life

The trust of a people comes from the goodness of their leaders.

Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

If you want to change the world...cross-pollination is key!

W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.

She might not be bound to him, but she was still his Shadow Girl.

Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words