Quotes about Influence
A good character is the best tombstone.
- Charles Spurgeon
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
- Mark Twain
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.
- John Maxwell
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
- John Milton
I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.
- Julian Casablancas
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
- Simon Sinek
On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become good or bad depending on the cues sent out within a particular space.
- Alain de Botton
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
- Calvin Coolidge
Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child.
- Dennis Prager
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
- Donald Miller
I was the one that got him [Barack Obama] to produce the birth certificate. And I think I did a good job.
- Donald Trump