Emmet Fox Quotes

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

You can live a charmed life by causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and experiences -- in the life of another. Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person.

Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

What kind of influence do you want to have? What kind of effect do you want to have on other people? Never mistake the power of influence.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.

Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

Anyone who's making a huge impact or speaking out about what they believe in or who's brave enough to be themselves is a superhero to me.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

We ought always to try to influence others for good.

People don't believe that their actions really and truly are going to make a difference. But kids get it. They know. And they get all excited about the difference they're making.

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

If you inspire one person each day, you’re day hasn't been a waste. It’s been a blessing.

I am a very optimistic man and only an optimistic man can bring optimism in the country.

Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.

I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.

I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn't do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I'd done more positive things.

Lots of women tell me I'm their idol.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.