What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands - you are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.
- Oprah Winfrey
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.
- Dalai Lama
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
- Brian Tracy
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
- Tennessee Williams
Leadership calls for changing people's behavior. Influencers are those leaders who understand how to create rapid, profound, and sustainable behavior change.
- Joseph Grenny
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- Napoleon Hill
I have been influenced by paintings I have seen in books, and in museums, not because they defined success but because they suggested possibilities.
- Eleanor Blair
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.
- Confucius
In order to develop their staff, leaders need to positively influence them in order to facilitate behavioral changes which will contribute to their overall professional development.
- John Errigo
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
- Kobe Bryant
You can’t influence people you refuse to associate with.
- Andy Stanley
In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life - my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.
- Frank Auerbach
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
- Wassily Kandinsky
Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
- Stephen Covey
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
- Beatrix Potter
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
- Jim Rohn
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
- Margot Asquith
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
- Stephen Covey
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
- Eric Hoffer
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
- Karl Marx
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
- Andrew Young
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
- E. M. Forster
Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.