Quotes About Influence

When you have him as your leader, and conform your will and desire to his, what fear of failure can you have?

when we love, hate or fear such things, then the people who administer them are bound to become our masters.

not even God has the power of coercion over us'.

No one has power over our principles, and what other people do control we don't care about.

They made you responsible only for what is in your power – the proper use of impressions.

Whenever someone helps or hinders you, or praises or criticizes you, remember that they see you only through the lens of their own impressions. If they act or speak from a warped perspective, they hurt themselves—not you.

Some things are within our power while others are not.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power

And when you ask your employee to do something, remember that she may not do as you wish. But giving her the power to upset you does no good for either of you.

I]f you gape after externals, you must of necessity ramble up and down in obedience to the will of your master. And who is the master? He who has the power over the things which you seek to gain or try to avoid.

You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.

If you make peace with all things that are beyond your power, refusing to fight them, you will be invincible.

Find your significance within yourself. Within your own sphere of power—that is where you have the greatest consequence.

Who is there left for me to fear, and over what has he control? Not what is in my power, because no one controls that except myself. As for what is not in my power, in that I take no interest.

has any of you such power as Socrates had, in all his intercourse with men, of winning them over to his own convictions?

There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature. And what is its nature? However God decides.

distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power

Our master is anyone who has the power to implement or prevent the things that we want or don't want. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, should wish for nothing or avoid nothing that is up to other people.

There are things that are within our power, and things that fall outside our power. Within our power are our own opinions, aims, desires, dislikes—in sum, our own thoughts and actions.

Turning up our light in the presence of those whose light is dim becomes the difference that makes the difference.

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.