Quotes about Influence

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Blessed influence of one truly loving soul on another!

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

I love Tim Minchin, Bill Bailey, and Hans Teeuwen, and I'm trying to synthesise elements of theatre into my show a little bit more.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.