quotations about influence
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
The King of Attolia
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
JOE DIMAGGIO
attributed, Baseball Is America
Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.
SAMUEL SMILES
Character
Influence is a golden key to every place and position.
MME. VOILLEZ
attributed, Day's Collacon
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,
Or mild concerns of ordinary life,
A constant influence, a peculiar grace.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Character of the Happy Warrior