Quotes about Influence

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

One who has great love has great power.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

You become what you hang around most.

In addition to feeling excellent about yourself when you behave with character, you also earn the respect and esteem of all the people around you. They will look up to you and admire you. Doors will be opened for you. People will help you. You will be paid more, promoted faster, and given even greater responsibilities. As you become a person of honor and character, opportunities will appear all around you.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

If you grow up in a household where there are books, where you are read to, where parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins read for their own pleasure, naturally you learn to read. If no one close to you takes joy in reading, where is the evidence that it's worth the effort?

I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.

We are privileged to live in, and if we are lucky to influence, one of the most critical epochs in the history of the human species.

Our politics, economics, advertising, and religions (New Age and Old) are awash in credulity. Those who have something to sell, those who wish to influence public opinion, those in power, a skeptic might suggest, have a vested interest in discouraging skepticism

Trends working at least marginally towards the implantation of a very narrow range of attitudes, memories, and opinions include control of major television networks and newspapers by a small number of similarly motivated powerful corporation and individuals, the disappearance of competitive daily newspapers in many cities, the replacement of substantive debate by sleaze in political campaigns, and episodic erosion of the principal of the separation of powers.