Quotes about Influence
I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. It
— Nelson Mandela
A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded.
— Nelson Mandela
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
— Nelson Rockefeller
What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?
— Nicole Kidman
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
— Octavia Butler
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
— Og Mandino
In a way, people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind — that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality — its inexpressibility.
— Olga Tokarczuk
One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading
— Olga Tokarczuk
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.