Quotes about Influence

What contributions, what achievements will you want to have made in your field

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them.

They want other people to be the way they want them to be. They often want to clone them, and they surround themselves with "yes" people—people who won't challenge them, people who are weaker than they.

if "success" were important in any area of life, it was supremely important in our role as parents.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature. E

As long as we are working in our Circle of Concern, we empower the things within it to control us. We aren't taking the proactive initiative necessary to effect positive change.

Our basic human needs and capacities to live, to love, to learn, and to leave a legacy.

We exhibit the highest form of divine influence when we exemplify divine attitudes and attributes in the worst kind of situations and predicaments.

Proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

Our image of ourselves, and our role as good, caring parents, was even deeper than our image of our son and perhaps influenced