Quotes About Influence

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.

Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his companions.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

I've always led by example and I'm not that vocal.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

The tongue is very powerful, so what you say really is, and I really believe that. So I just try to say good things, and then things like this happen.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?