Influence Quotes

"The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done." "My friends have made the story of my life." "A child miseducated is a child lost" "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader" "The power of humans depends on the power of our stories" "Every opinion you have right now is a product of what you have been exposed to in life." "There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup." "Without a clear collective vision, democracy will not be achieved." "Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere" "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction." "Attitudes are much more important than facts." "What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches." "What's done to children, they will do to society." "The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins" "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it"