Quotes About Influence

You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.

A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.

Information has more power than any atom bomb.

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.

By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

To be a leader, be an example that others may follow.

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Be so strong that no one can ignore you. By blaming others you never win, but you do lose to your conscience again and again.

Be so strong that no one can ignore you.

Often we are the prisoner of praise and appreciation.

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

Choose not to prove how wrong others are, but choose to show them on how to be right

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers