Quotes About Influence

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.

The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.

Ask yourself a question: Is my attitude worth catching?

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

If I feel I'm not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that's the time I'd pack it in.

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.