Quotes about Influence
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
— John Wesley
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
— John Wesley
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
— John Wesley
Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.
— John Wesley
Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.
— John Wesley
I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.
— John Wooden
Young people need models, not critics...
— John Wooden
Discipline yourself and others won't need to.
— John Wooden
Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.
— John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating...too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up in making a living they forget to make a life.
— John Wooden
The importance of little things is underrated just because they are small, but the influence of the little things for good or evil is great. They supply much of the actual discipline of life for every human being. They are part of the training of the soul in the sanctification of all our entrusted talents to God. Faithfulness in the little things in the line of duty makes the worker in God's service reflect more and more the likeness of Christ.—That I May Know Him, p. 331.
— Ellen White
Every soul is surrounded by an atmosphere of its own—an atmosphere, it may be, charged with the life-giving power of faith, courage, and hope, and sweet with the fragrance of love. Or it may be heavy and chill with the gloom of discontent and selfishness, or poisonous with the deadly taint of cherished sin. By the atmosphere surrounding us, every person with whom we come in contact is consciously or unconsciously affected.
— Ellen White