Quotes About Influence

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray.