Quotes about Influence
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.
- Virginia Woolf
My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.
- Maya Angelou
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.
- Abraham Lincoln
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
- Vince Lombardi
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.
- Jim Rohn
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
- Jim Rohn
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
- John Maxwell
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
- Napoleon Hill