Quotes About Influence

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.

Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him...

Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.

Power is founded upon opinion.

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

There is now converging evidence supporting the idea that offspring are affected by parental trauma exposures occurring before their birth, and possibly even prior to their conception.' Rachel Yehuda