Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the spell you cast. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see.

By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.

When you lead a normal life, you aren't aware of how you affect people.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Politicians need to realise that words have consequences.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it's a fact that we have power. Everyone—friend and enemy—looks to see how we use it, how we treat it, how we keep it.

We have to live with the world that we helped to create.

When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move … When the leader talks, people listen. When the leader acts, people watch. So you have to be careful about everything you say and everything you do

In life, you'll often find that having influence and providing sound advice is a good thing, even if it attracts criticism or requires some sacrifice.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Everything I did in politics affected somebody.

The bigger your platform gets - it kind of feels like being Godzilla sometimes. You make a slight move and you can accidentally knock over a building. It's a tough thing to navigate.

Lives literally depend on what we do.

Everything you touch touches you.

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.