Influence Quotes

You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that chosen field of influence.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence.

~ Steven Magee

on idea technology--Science creates ideas, science creates ways of understanding. And in the social sciences, ways of understanding ourselves. And they have an enormous influence on how we think, what we aspire to, and how we act. ......idea technology may be the most profoundly important technology that science gives us.......we do have to worry about the theories we have of human nature, because human nature will be changed by the theories we have that are designed to explain and help us understand human beings....it is only human nature to have a human nature that is very much the product of the society in which people live.--TED The way we think about work is broken

~ Barry Schwartz

Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t leave people empty handed. They give them part of themselves through knowledge sharing and influence creation.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The focus should be on becoming a strong andinfluential personality – cultivate compelling communication skills, focus on building trust and learn how to expand and leverage your professional network.

~ Abhishek Ratna

It’s never wrong to be rich, but I want to believe, success is not limited to riches; it involves influence. If your riches don't create any impact, you are missing it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A leader’s goal is to remain relevant even when time changes.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity

~ Sunday Adelaja

Tenacity is essential for accomplishment in anything you do. Without drive, determination and a strong-willed attitude, one's level of success at many endeavors will be limited in scope.

~ Gabriella Marigold Lindsay

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

~ Charles Bukowski

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

~ Harold Bloom

Anytime, someone gives you advice, rethink if it will lead to personal progress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our emotions affect the atmosphere around us, and other people, because emotions influence the electromagnetic field our heart emits.

~ Sam Owen

In relationships, always strive to give more than you take -- that's how you make a bigger impact.

~ Adam Kirk Smith

Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.

~ Wayne Chirisa

If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.

~ Peprah Boasiako

We all have a responsibility with the words we post on the internet. If you wouldn't want your mother, daughter, sister or friend to read it, don't post it.

~ Germany Kent

The impact of your life will go beyond your imagination. Live your life to be a blessing.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you increase and multiply, you get much more influence and reach beyond your imagination

~ Sunday Adelaja

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an author who has an h-index = 2 obtained on the basis of two published papers of which each is cited twenty times is more influential than an author who has an h-index = 3 obtained on the basis of three published papers of which each is cited three times.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

~ G.k. Chesterton

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

~ Gloria Steinem

The universe is a deep, still body of water in which we all swim. Every move that we make creates a ripple that echoes across reality – and the deeper that we swim, the more force those waves carry and the farther they may span.

~ Cristen Rodgers

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

~ Rick Warren

Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Self-leaders do not look for followers because they are busily pursuing their influencial dreams that followers will trace and ask for. Followers look for influence and that can be obtained from self-leaders.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

~ Sunday Adelaja

Most people under the influence of the wrong and common belief which says that the sense of man’s life is to grow a tree, build a house and bring up a son

~ Sunday Adelaja

Names have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the name

~ Sunday Adelaja

Once I realize that the tune I’m whistling in my head is the theme that’s driving my heart, I suddenly realize that the most important question I can ask is, “What are the lyrics?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

People tend to accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and feelings, and reject information that contradicts them. This is called “motivated reasoning,” and it means that providing people with corrective information often does not work and may even strengthen their original beliefs. This also means that when people receive new information, their existing beliefs and feelings may have more influence over whether they believe or reject this information than rational reasoning.

~ Rachel Hilary Brown

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment,but an inclination to what feels right.

~ Natasha Tsakos