Influence Quotes

If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.

Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions.

Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.

I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame

Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value.

What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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

What is it, in your opinion, to be a great nobleman? It is to be master of several objects that men covet, and thus to be able to satisfy the wants and the desires of many. It is thesewants and these desires that attract them towards you, and that make them submit to you: were it not for these, they would not even look at you; but they hope, by these services... to obtainfrom you some part of the good which they desire, and of which they see that you have the disposal.

Our best thoughts come from others.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

We're playing those mind games togetherPushing the barriers, planting seedsPlaying the mind guerrilla.

Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!

You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

I am at peace, and people become fair by themselves.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.

Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.

If my mother hadn't been trying to be a writer, I don't know if I would have thought of it myself.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

To lead, one must follow.

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

Have a vision; but it's not enough to have a vision, you have to communicate that vision to others. You have to communicate it to people who work with you and for you. You have to communicate it to the world leaders with whom you come in touch.

You don't have to hold a position to be a leader.