Quotes About Influence

It is so difficult for us to remember and be motivated by what is truly important. It is so tempting to be committed to our little kingdoms that the transcendent kingdom of God is of little functional influence.

Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life.

Children begin to lose respect for the parent who is content with a "do what I say and not as I do" relationship to children.

One of the most dangerous delusions for each of us is the delusion of our own sovereignty. And one of our most dangerous idols is the idol of control.

the identity we assign to ourselves shapes and defines the way that we live our lives.

You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

I am persuaded that the church today has many more consumers than committed participants.

If you are alive on this planet, you are a counselor! You are interpreting life, and sharing those interpretations with others. You are a person of influence, and you are also being influenced.

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him.

You've been born into a world of authority, and it is not you.

The things you say to you about yourself, about God, and about life are very, very important because they are formative of the way you act and react to the things that God places in your life

Humility means that each leader's relationship to other leaders is characterized by an acknowledgment that he deserves none of the recognition, power, or influence that his position affords him. It

Principio: Nada es más importante en tu vida que ser un instrumento para formar el alma de una persona.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

That's the greatest thing about wikis: they combine the best features of democracy and autocracy. Everybody has an equal say. But some got bigger says than others.

As a politician, if you are really interested in tackling inequality to ensure that as many people as possible have 'just enough', then you need to ensure that the rich stop using, as Stiglitz puts it, 'their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending'.

to prime yourself to act differently, the defaults you set up, the commitments you make, and the norms of those you surround yourself with, as well as using these elements to alter your habits.

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

We can only hope we leave behind persons whose lives are better for our having lived.

It takes very little to bring about a woman's fall, but you have to lift the whole world in order to lift her.

You are writing a Gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithless or true; Say, what is the Gospel According to you?

So much of what we are then has been completely outside of our control and is not our fault. •