Quotes About Influence

Many fashion designers, moreover, are homosexual, Versace only the most conspicuous example, and these men create a boylike fashion norm which forces women into patterns of diet and exercise which constitute a new form of oppression. [Boys will be boys]

Any organization consisting of three or more members existing for more than three weeks must only be serving the interests of its strongest member(s).

People virtually never get two chances to make a good first impression. It is also a lot harder to reverse a bad first impression than to make a good first impression.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

All the children of the powerful were being groomed to be powerful

My mother's father, Ahmed Musa Ibrahim, was an educated man, a travelled man, who had no time for these self-deluding patrician airs. He preferred to speak about justice and liberty and the right to self-fulfilment. He would pay for these words in due course. He had spent two years at Makerere College in Uganda and one year at Edinburgh University in Scotland, completing a Diploma in Public Health.

In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

Whatever grace might 'trickle down' from the higher regions of a given society to the lower is no more essential than that which rises and converges from the opposite direction.

I mostly owe my success to my mother and have always drawn inspiration from her strong personality.

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

Well now I know I can control my tongue, my temper & my appetites, but that's it. I have no effect on weather, traffic or luck. I can't make good things happen; I can't keep anybody safe; I can't influence the future & I can't fix up the past. What a relief!" from book A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

Although the Mongols dominated Russia for close to two and a half centuries, from 1240 to roughly 1480, there is still no consensus among scholars about the extent to which they influenced the course of Russian

Terrible (whom he greatly admired), was molded largely by traumatic childhood

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.