Quotes about Influence
Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?
— Charles Swindoll
How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!
— Ezra Taft Benson
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
— St. Augustine
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