Quotes About Influence

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.

Luck and nature shapes our imagination.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Books, like landscapes, leave their marks in us. (...) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

You are the only one who can.

You'll contact with me by the pressure, the need or by the interest ".

People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose...?

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you.

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

When you start learning how to give when you're young, when you get older it is second nature. Just like stealing. Start young and you keep on stealing forever. Ask my politicians.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Everything depends on upbringing.

Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.