Quotes about Influence
I am a reflection of my mother's secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
— Audre Lorde
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
— Ayn Rand
I'll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don't mind that, I don't mind listening.
— Ayn Rand
There is only one power that determines the course of history, just as it determines the course of every individual life: the power of man's rational faculty—the power of ideas.
— Ayn Rand
Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
— Stephen Covey
A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.
— Stephen Covey
If you look behind every exceptional person there is an exceptional teacher. When each of us thinks about what we can do in life, chances are we can do it because of a teacher.
— Stephen Hawking
When we are gone, the only essential thing we will leave behind are the memories we create in the lives of those we have touched and those we love.
— Michael Hyatt
You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have the power to think, you have the power to change your world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou