Quotes about Influence

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

So it stands to reason that as we are filled with Him, we will reflect His holiness and purity in who we are, in what we say, and in what we do. As a result, our lives will be in sharp contrast to those around us.

I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.

Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back. What you give, you get.

Guns don't kill people, dads with daughters do.

Divide and rule.