I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. — Isaac Hayes
Make your influence a good one.
Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person. — Lindsey Stirling
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. — George Washington
The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town. — Graham Collier
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large. — Shari Arison
The most powerful moral influence is example. — Huston Smith
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society. — Jack Kemp
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. — Jim Rohn
Positive things happen to positive people. — Sarah Beeny
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about. — Tiger Woods
Positive thoughts lead to positive results. — Maria V. Snyder
I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual. — Sam Elliott
A positive attitude will have positive results because attitudes are contagious. — Zig Ziglar
It is more important to influence people than to impress them. — Adrian Rogers
One person of integrity can make a difference. — Elie Wiesel
Short Positive Influence Quotes
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many. — Elizabeth May
Positive things happen when you distance yourself from negative people — Boonaa Mohammed
Spread positivity; don't matter how big, or how small. — Beyonce Knowles
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. — Ken Blanchard
Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way. — Victoria Justice
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact. — Larry Page
Focusing on others will give you more influence and power than focusing on yourself. — Kevin Eikenberry
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. — Margot Asquith
There is a transcendent power in example. — Sophie Swetchine
Positive Influence Image Quotes
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Being A Positive Influence Quotes
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. — John C. Maxwell
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens. — Spencer W. Kimball
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine
Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids. — Tony Evans
For whatever reason, God has blessed me with the ability, put me in a position to make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling my part of the bargain, which is to give back and be a positive influence on others. — Denzel Washington
I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself. — Mario Teguh
More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
I don't think of myself as a role model for others, but I like to live my life by my own integrity. So, in that sense, I might be a positive influence. I do believe you should get over your insecurities and just try to be the best you can. — Lily Cole
We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' — Robert Winston
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing. — Geddy Lee
Importance Of Positive Attitude Quotes
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
Attitude is an important part of the foundation upon which we build a productive life. A good attitude produces good results, a fair attitude poor results, a poor attitude poor results. We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. — M. Russell Ballard
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. — Norman Vincent Peale
Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture. — Sue Wicks
If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking. — Robert H. Schuller
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans. — Timothy Garton Ash
A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life. — Chin-Ning Chu
Power Of Positive Attitude Quotes
If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path! — Maya Angelou
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. — Joyce Meyer
Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words. — Brian Tracy
If you devote yourself to positivity, positivity will devote itself to you. — Mod Sun
Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength. — Sivananda
If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon. — Alan Loy McGinnis
A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude. — Bruce Wilkinson
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so. — Shakti Gawain
Whatever you're feeling is what you're vibrating and what you're vibrating is what you're attracting — Lynn Grabhorn
Good Influence Quotes
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good. — John Knox
I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life. — Immanuel Kant
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie
Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil. — Robert Anton Wilson
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. — James Allen
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. — James E. Faust
The way I saw it was, if I had the built-in following and the audience, but I also had the skill set of acting, that would shoot me to the top. Because there's so many good actors. There's so many good-looking people. But the X factor now is social media. — Jake Paul
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. — Danish Proverbs
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment. — George Nelson
A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart. — Howard G. Hendricks
Negative Influence Quotes
The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two. — Kendrick Lamar
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez
In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them. — Lao Tzu
Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential. — Marla Runyan
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. — Michael Bassey
My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team. — Don Shula
God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away. — Joel Osteen
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences. — Amanda Ripley
We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group. — Kendrick Lamar
Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice. — Shawn Achor
Positive Inspirational Quotes
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. — Dalai Lama
Personal Influence Quotes
The moment a woman comes home to herself, the moment she knows that she has become a person of influence, an artist of her life, a sculptor of her universe, a person with rights and responsibilities who is respected and recognized, the resurrection of the world begins. — Joan D. Chittister
It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. — Kano Jigoro
I think if I have one message, one thing before I die that most of the world would know, it would be that the event does not determine how to respond to the event. That is a purely personal matter. The way in which we respond will direct and influence the event more than the event itself. — Virginia Satir
The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth. — Francis Galton
My wife understood a crucial spiritual principle I'd yet to grasp. You can stand in the light. And you can set a positive example. But you simply cannot make someone change. — Rich Roll
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. — Roland Gift
Prioritize spending time with people who make you better—who lift you up and make you want to grow. — Sahil Bloom
A lot of the celebrities' kids are Jake Paulers, and so they'll run up and say, 'My dad is this person,' 'My dad is that person.' I'm, like, 'Yo, what's up bro? How are you?' — Jake Paul
If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original! — Gary Panter
Positive Inspire Quotes
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. — Immanuel Kant
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. — William Faulkner
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. — Mae Jemison
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society. — Bill Gates
The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions. — Jon Gordon
I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that. — Hugh Hefner
Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
Today, I choose to give love. — Louise Hay
You can stand in the light. And you can set a positive example. But you simply cannot make someone change. — Rich Roll
The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears. — Gustave Le Bon
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned. — Claud Cockburn
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them. — Terence Stamp
I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy. — Arsene Wenger
A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life. — Mena Suvari
It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind. — Napoleon Hill
I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact. — Matt Damon
The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood. — Madison Grant
Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the course of events. Monetary and real phenomena are connected in a reflexive fashion; that is, they influence each other mutually. The reflexive relationship manifests itself most clearly in the use and abuse of credit. — George Soros
Freedom [should not be] conceived negatively as exemption from social influences or situational constraints. Rather...positively as the exercise of self-influence to bring about desired results. — Albert Bandura
Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life. — Helen Van Slyke
After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him! — Roger Meddows Taylor
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. — Buddha
I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it. — Justin Bieber
A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse. — Michael Parenti
The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them — Noam Chomsky
Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. 'Farm' the seeds of constructive influence. — Jim Rohn
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. In our system, she must become a passive, much more than an active, influence, and her passivity shall be composed of anxious scientific curiosity and of absolute respect for the phenomenon which she wishes to observe. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. — Maria Montessori
Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables. — Tae Yun Kim
I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling. — Gillian Anderson
The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers! — Dante Hall
Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour. — Michael Marmot
I don't want to go crazy pretending to be someone all the time. But at the same time, if I have the ability to influence people, and we have X amount of energy in the day, it's not even our option anymore - it's our duty to do something positive in the world. — Lilly Singh
Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it. — Bruno Bettelheim
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences. — Richard Davidson
The lucid dream, located as it is at a crossroads between worlds and states of consciousness, places the magician in a unique position to influence the delicate balance of consciousness and the interplay it has on matter in the waking state, and is thus an opportunity to test one's ability in the art of adjusting the mutable fabric of Maya. — Zeena Schreck
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony. — Max Bill
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. — Brene Brown
Man may become the master of himself, and of his environment, because he has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, and through it, gain the cooperation of Infinite Intelligence. — Napoleon Hill
The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment. — Arthur Cecil Pigou
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
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