Quotes About Influence

Most people's lives are a direct reflection of their peer groups.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Legacy is greater than currency.

If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

50 is Eminem's favourite rapper... I'm my favourite rapper.

To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.