Influence Quotes

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Having a title only doesn’t make one a leader; talented people without a title don’t follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.

~ Pearl Zhu

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

~ Peprah Boasiako

Know your limit and circle of influence, you are not called to meet the needs of everyone.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Leadership is influencing others through modeling.

~ Farshad Asl

Instead of thinking that you always need to do bigger things, learn to do the small things in better ways.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest.

~ Todd Stocker

Let there be a child, who should,not be taught. Let there be a child, who should,be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don’t preach him, dear. Don’t let him read the quotations,on internet and make them his passion. Don’t tell him stories of successful,and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what,he is to know.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Real power, is the power that empowers without corruption

~ Constance Friday

When leaders lead in ways that people’s brains can follow, good results follow as well.

~ Henry Cloud

As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.

~ Henry Cloud

You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.

~ Dexter Hawk

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

~ Dr. Rob Pennington

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

~ Agatha Christie

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse. – Calvin Coolidge

~ David Pietrusza

Now even reformers needed political machines.

~ Rick Perlstein

Live an exemplary life as a leader. When you are gone, you will still lead from the grave because your influence, impacts and inspirations will become and information for the living.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.

~ Andrew Zolli

I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.

~ Geraldine Brooks

He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.

~ Erik Larson

David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

~ Geraldine Brooks

The towering genius is not apolitical.

~ Richard Brookhiser

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

~ H.w. Brands

Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence, they take corrections.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When manipulation flutters around everywhere, neither pull nor push anyone. Just do one thing - don't trust anyone!

~ Ashish Patel

I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did.

~ Stefan Bachmann

The past does not influence me, I influence it.

~ Willem De Kooning

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

~ Harold Bloom

I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap

~ Kirtida Gautam

…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, … 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Numerous times throughout history, a single person has made a tremendous impact on the world. I don’t know why anyone would think that can’t still happen.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Music’s the soundtrack of my life and has been since I was a teenager. There’s always music. If I’m not playing it, I’m listening to it. With my writing…sometimes it inspires a story, sometimes it highlights something I’m working on, sometimes it simply helps me stay in the narrative mood.

~ Charles De Lint

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

~ David Hepworth

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

~ Criss Jami

Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.

~ Edward O. Sisson

The harbour of influence is richer in the cemeteries where people are buried with their music on their tongues unsung. Don't leave your potentials untouched!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru