Quotes About Influence

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

Basketball is just a platform for me to inspire people.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

If someone says no, you're talking to the wrong person.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.

Be the sun and all will see you.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.