Quotes About Influence

We have had the bomb on our minds since 1945. It was first our weaponry, and then diplomacy, and now it's our economy. How can we suppose that something so monstrously powerful could not, after 40 years, compose our identity?

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

Man made God in his own image...

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

You attract and manifest whatever corresponds to your inner state.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available to you now.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within (...)

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there.

I want you to achieve what I never achieved; I want you to be somebody in the eyes of the world, so that I too can be somebody through you. Don't disappoint me. I sacrificed so much for you. My disapproval of you is intended to make you feel so guilty and uncomfortable that you finally conform to my wishes. And it goes without saying that I know what's best for you. I love you and I will continue to love you if you do what I know is right for you.

Es cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente intentará usar o manipular a las demás, pero es igualmente cierto que sólo una persona inconsciente puede ser usada y manipulada.

The content you identify with is conditioned by your environment, your upbringing, and surrounding culture.

It is true that only an unconscious person will try to use or manipulate others, but it is equally true that only an unconscious person can be used and manipulated.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within, and it is available

Anything that is done with negative energy will become contaminated by it and in time give rise to more pain, more unhappiness. Furthermore, any negative inner state is contagious: Unhappiness spreads more easily than a physical disease.

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

Unhappiness spreads more easily than a physical disease.

That's leadership: lead by example, lead from the front, inspire people to follow your lead.

what you do to add to the human existence—that is what matters

Ce qui m'affecte au plus profond, c'est qu'un vocabulaire trompeur remporte la victoire sur le vocabulaire normal. Le triomphe de la force est terrible; le triomphe de la force dans et par le mensonge est horrible.

I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.

Perry used to say that if a fellow was one-tenth as remarkable as his wife or mother thought him, he would have the world by the tail with a down-hill drag.

In the Odyssey when a priest and a poet fall on their knees before Odysseus, praying him to spare their lives, the hero kills the priest without a thought, but saves the poet. Homer says that he felt awe to slay a man who had been taught his divine art by the gods. Not the priest, but the poet, had influence with heaven—and no one was ever afraid of a poet.