Influence Quotes

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

All I am I owe to my mother.

My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS

Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

When one man of popularity can let the world know the problem, he might lose a few dollars himself. He might lose his life. But he's helping millions.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

To be successful, a man must exert an effective influence upon his brothers and upon his associates, and the degree in which he accomplishes this depends on the personality of the man. The incandescence of which he is capable. The flame of fire that burns inside of him. The magnetism which draws the heart of other men to him.

I'd like to be queen of people's hearts.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also.

I make pop culture.

So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).

Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, "Hey, we got a crazy man in the community," and they'll begin talking to you.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

So many lives I touch, so much anger.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay

There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.

The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself to look more blue and bright. Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercise, even over the appearance of external objects.

Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.

My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Thoughts are living things - they travel far.

... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.