Quotes about Influence
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
- Oprah Winfrey
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
- Oprah Winfrey
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
- Oprah Winfrey
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
- Oprah Winfrey
It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER
- Os Guinness
Biography can overwhelm philosophy in the best of us.
- Os Guinness
The key to changing the world is not simply being there, but an active, transforming engagement of a singularly robust and energetic kind.
- Os Guinness
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
- Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould
- Oswald Chambers
We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
- Oswald Chambers