Quotes about Influence

need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table

Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn't mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.

Success is not success without a successor.

my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.

A father is an image of a young man's destiny, a living testimony of what time may bring to pass.

When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.

We claim we are not emotional, yet we are so sensitive that a vicious word from a cruel woman can leave the most manly of us impotent! A cutting statement can undermine the strength, vigor, and vitality of even the strongest of men. Most women greatly underestimate the power of their words to magnify or crush their husbands' strength.

told them that you have to earn the right to be heard. People won't just follow you because you say so. They will only follow you when you have endured, developed, grown, and sometimes suffered.

Dad is our first definition of masculinity.

His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.

Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.

It wasn't the hand a person was dealt that determined the outcome—it was the person holding the cards who made the difference. And he'd laid his cards down long ago. At the foot of the cross.