A community is like the ones who govern it.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.
In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.