Great leadership is not about giving orders, it’s about taking others

We should not influence our children to such a belief or religion. We should just show them the path of goodness; and from that, they can choose according to their interests.

The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

We are the sum total of our experiences. Those experiences – be they positive or negative – make us the person we are, at any given point in our lives. And, like a flowing river,...

Leadership isn’t about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Power and influence: things that should be obtained not for means of greed, nor pride, nor ego, but rather to ensure that in the right moment, when your wisdom and benevolence are required to keep...

We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced—and sometimes strongly—by our personal bias; and we...

Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting...

Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful,...

(Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train

Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won? Because the fact that the game has already been played precludes the possibility that our...

His (Washington’s) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.

Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One – Chapter: Gun To Your Head

It was after a Frontline television documentary screened in the US in 1995 that the Freyds’ public profile as aggrieved parents provoked another rupture within the Freyd family, when William Freyd made public his own...

Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young persons must not only be furnished with knowledge, but they must be accustomed...

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret–a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

Bling” is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence…the haves’ bleeding the have-nots’.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow...

Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.

Compared to many homes, preschool centers are richer settings in terms of enriched language, reading and math, … The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children’s Development Nationwide: How Much Is Too Much?

You are the most influential person in your life. You can embrace your strengths or give away your power. The choice is yours.

Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you’ll provide.

Do not rush to judge someone unless his/her fruits reveal the truth. However, don’t forget; mostly, it’s not the fault of the tree to produce bitter fruits. Sometimes, the soil determines that; blame the source!...

Music is the one place in mass media where kids editorialize to kids.

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it...

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you think and do right now, either positive or negative is working on your behalf because you are a co-worker...

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to ‘be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on...

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

The increasingly active diplomatic maneuvers have made unprecedented contribution to China`s rising influence in today`s world,

You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.

The last achievement of the serious admirer is to stop immediately putting to work the energies aroused by, filling up the space opened by, what is admired. Thereby talented admirers give themselves permission to breathe,...

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible toinfluence.

The worst thing is to have all that clout and not know your own mind. If she says her (Marilyn Monroe’s)favorite color is beige, that has to be a definite possibility. Then she will be...

Children, the life is more than meat. Consider the lilies, how beautiful they grow.” It certainly seemed worth while then just to be sweet, for it pleased the Master.

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I don’t think this result will influence what happens on Wednesday, but I am not going to deny that the squad will have lost a little self-belief.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

The thing that struck me was his intensity. Whatever he was interested in he would generally carry to an irrational extreme.” Jobs had honed his trick of using stares and silences to master other people....

stricter standards applied to those who influence impressionable young people.

No two persons can learn something and experience it in the same way.