Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Influence Quotes
CommunicationGentlenessInfluencePersuasionRespect If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don't say, 'You don't know how to use the English language,' or 'How could you make that argument?' It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.
ExcellenceInfluenceSelf Belief To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.
CreativityIdentityInfluencePurposeSelf-Expression Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
IndependenceInfluenceLifestyleSelf-awarenessTemptation Temptation is just the feeling that you're the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That's something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I'm in, the same thing exists! But it's 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you're in the limelight, you can get anything you want.
AmbitionInfluenceInnovationLeadership We're the leaders. Look around. Everything we do, we're gonna see everyone else try to do it.
EmpowermentInfluenceMusicPositivitySelf-Love I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
InfluenceMoney S RolePolitics Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
CreativityDesignInfluenceScience FictionTechnology I think, visually, 'Moon' probably owes more to the first half of 'Alien' and 'Outland' than it does to '2001.' The character of Gerty is obviously a straight rip-and-riff on HAL.
GratitudeInfluenceMotherSuccessUpbringing My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
AspirationDedicationInfluenceMusicPassion I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
CourageHomophobiaIdentityInfluenceRole Models When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.
ExampleInfluenceIntegrity Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
AuthorityCreationIllusionInfluencePower Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
AuthenticityExpressionInfluenceMusicPerseverance As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
CommunicationInfluenceResponsibilitySuccessWisdom Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
InfluenceLegislationMoney in PoliticsPolitics I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
InfluenceLeadershipMediaPlatformResponsibility Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.
CreativityEducationExpressionInfluenceLiterature At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.
CharacterImportanceInfluence Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
EmotionInfluenceRelationshipSocial Interactions Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
ArtistsInfluenceInspirationLegacyMusic A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
FearInfluenceMedia PowerPublic Opinion Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
