Gary Chapman Quotes

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

I want to inflict some change on people.

I do not know how anyone can mould anyone.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

How am I influencing so many people on this stage rather than influencing the ones that I have back home?

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.