Quotes about Influence

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude toward us.

Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Never allow a person to tell you NO who doesn't have the power to say YES.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last forever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. A work that is good may not last for ever, but the thought expressed by it will, and the work itself will surely survive for a very long time, and those who come later can do no better than follow in the footsteps of such predecessors and copy their example.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.