Individual Influence Quotes

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

You may sometimes be tempted to say, ‘Will my influence make any difference? I am just one. Will my service affect the work that dramatically?’ I testify to you that it will. You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

People have power to make a difference in their lives.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

It's important in any organization that if visions have any reality at all, it's because the organization believes that the vision is right and that they share in it. Otherwise, it becomes the good idea of one person, and that even more importantly contributes to the sense that it will not survive the departure of that individual.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

If you just enchanted one person per day, you would make a big dent in the universe.

The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior.

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.

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

There have been plenty of experiences that I wished to write about but found them to be somewhat similar to each other. Later I realised that though they are of similar nature but each of them has changed me in a different way.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.