Top 1200 Personal Influence Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

My own personal tweets are very limited. I think I have, like, 68 followers on my personal Twitter.

I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

To me, writing is a personal thing; I write super-personal, autobiographically.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

We've been here so long. The history and richness runs so deep within the community. We own this. It's personal. It's very personal.

I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness.

All of our lyrics are really personal, and we get a lot of personal letters.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.

Off screen, I am a very shy person, and I want to keep my personal life completely personal.

My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.

I had a personal email when I was in the Senate, as the vast majority of senators do. It was very convenient. I did all of my business on personal emails.

My collections are a reflection of my personal style and interests. All the textiles, fabrics and patterns are of my personal choice.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

There is a deeper life. It is as deep as a personal Gethsemane and as costly as a personal Calvary.

I don't make personal abuse against anybody, I don't mind personal remarks.

I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.

You grow up inside these neighborhoods and these communities, and you have friends, friends that you love, friends that you grew up with since elementary. And you have their trust, and you have their loyalty. So it brings influence. So no matter how much of a leader I thought I was, I was always under the influence, period.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

The American influence is not so aggressive anymore. The American big business influence in Latin America is not as strong, so people can vote and they can have a different life than before. They can have more liberal, more interesting, and more democratic governments.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.

If Salman Khan is not marrying, it is his personal decision and purely a personal matter. The issue is not related to empowerment of women.

I have no idea what will become of my work in the future, the future folk will not be aware of our influence over them, as we are unaware of how our dead influence us.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

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.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

I'm a fiercely private person in general, and like to keep my personal life personal.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Work is personal in the same way that finding a friend or partner is personal.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

I know from personal conversation and from personal interaction, that Hillary Clinton cares deeply about issues of inclusion.

She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

With things in my personal life, if I talk about it, it doesn't stay personal.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.