Influential People Quotes

• You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

  Scott Adams

  Inspirational Life, Teaching, Learning

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• When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

  Albert Einstein

  Spiritual, Self, Wind

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

  Clint Eastwood

  Influence And Power, Discipline, People

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• You can go as far as your mind lets you.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

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• Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

  Esther Dyson

  Powerful, People, Advice

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• I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother MJ, who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Girl, Grandmother, People

  "Khloe Kardashian Talks Body Confidence and Keeping Things Sexy with Lamar". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life - like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Sharks, Careers, White

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• If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

  Jessica Valenti

  Powerful, People, Feminism

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• It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power. I think it can be very revealing how they regard themselves and their relationship or their responsibility to their countrymen. That is vital for us all to know and in order to be able to judge them and evaluate them.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

  Graham Roberts

  Organization, People, Levels

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• At every stage of my career, I sought out the most influential people around me and asked for their help and guidance.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Careers, People, Helping

  "Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time". Book by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz, 2005.

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• Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

  George Ade

  People, Wish, Bed

  George Ade (1904). “True Bills”

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• I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, People, Liberty

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• I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.

  Yani Tseng

  People, Influential, Honored

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• Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Powerful, Mean, Play

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Final Empire: Mistborn Book One”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

  David McCullough

  Book, Character, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Nelson Mandela was one of the most influential people in my life. He was my hero, my friend, and also a companion to me in our fight for the people and for world peace. Let us all continue his legacy with purpose and passion.

  Pele

  Hero, Passion, Fighting

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• In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Influential

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• We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market. And I contest the notion that you can only succeed in China when you are well-connected. Neither my husband nor I are "princelings" - children of influential people, that is. And yet China has enabled us to succeed.

  Zhang Xin

  Children, Husband, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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