Quotes about Influence

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.

one of the most effective is that advocated by Frank Laubach in his excellent book, Prayer, the Mightiest Power in the World.

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.

Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others' effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

What you wish can only be accomplished by changing one person at a time.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.

Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.

Become the change you want to see—those are words I live by. Instead of belittling, uplift.