Quotes About Influence

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

People are over 20 times more likely to remember a story than a series of facts and figures. A good story touches our hearts.

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.

I try to stay away from certain stuff - I'm not a perfect human being. I try to represent myself as much as a good person could. I stay around the positive people.

Women can be incredible role models for their kids, neighbors and communities just by making good choices in terms of what they're eating and whether they're exercising.

Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

You know what I think that button [in Kremlin] should have read? It should've read "delete." Y'know, she [Hillary Clinton] is very good at that by the way.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.

It's a myth that if you're liked by only four people it must be good. It might also be very bad: they might be your mother, your brother, your uncle and your aunt.