
Top 82 Influence Change Quotes
#1. Every single one of us has the unique opportunity to create awareness and influence change
Gretchen Bleiler
#2. One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
Wess Stafford
#3. One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
Stokely Carmichael
#4. One
person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
your power to change things.
Norman Vincent Peale
#5. Magical moments,defining incidents,people who have made a difference to us....some of these change the course of life.I enjoy reliving these off and on to remind myself to look out for empowering moments,magical happenings and people who influence meaningfully.Try it,it is heartening and powerful
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#6. I wouldn't change anything. Even the minor things or problems are what influence who I am.
David Archuleta
#7. If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.
Hillary Clinton
#8. To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.
Bill Crawford
#9. We are not impotent. We can choose how we allow circumstances and experiences to influence us. We can change our interpretation of what happened and we can adjust our response to this interpretation.
Margaretha Montagu
#10. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
Barack Obama
#11. The Millennials, a generation born digital, will have a much stronger impact on social behaviour than we currently assume. Global climate change and resource security will influence our lives in substantial ways.
Klaus Schwab
#12. One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.
Andre Maurois
#13. To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don't have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.
Mel Gibson
#15. America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.
Lee Kuan Yew
#16. The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
#17. If we ask the right questions, we can change the world with the right answers.
Ogwo David Emenike
#18. It's too late to stop climate change, that's for sure, but we can still influence the degree of changes and the degree of impacts. We can prepare for a softer landing.
Hermann E. Ott
#19. Saying what the Father is saying releases the creative nature and Presence of God into a situation to bring His influence and change.
Bill Johnson
#20. In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.
Will Mancini
#21. It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#22. The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Richard A. Clarke
#23. Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.
Daniel Botkin
#24. By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do.
Jacques Lecoq
#25. I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.
Steve Jobs
#26. It will take as long as it takes. Your work is to take the time and make the space. Everything else is beyond your influence.
Vironika Tugaleva
#27. We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
#28. You do it for yourself. You don't expect to change the world. You don't even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can't not do it and be who you are. Or who you're meant to be.
Martin Sheen
#29. Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
Megan Whalen Turner
#30. I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent.
Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.
Margo Rabb
#31. People are more willing to change based on their perceived insecurities than by an attack on their beliefs.
A.J. Darkholme
#32. we can influence others, and change their behaviour, if: a) they are motivated to do what we are asking them to do; and b) what we are asking them to do is relatively easy.
Adam Ferrier
#33. I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important.
Jack Ma
#34. Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
Jonathan Sacks
#35. When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that's the indication of our transformation into a mature society.
Sukant Ratnakar
#36. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.
Edmund Bourne
#37. Since the caveman days, fear has been a powerful motivator that can influence our decision-making. Nowadays, however, we aren't running from wild animals, but instead are afraid of emotional trauma, change, disappointment and rejection.
Elaina Marie
#38. To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.
Jenny Reese Clark
#39. Aunt Rachel says tahat the universe is always trying to speak to us, and that the universe doesn't waste time speaking about things that aren't within our direct power to influence or change. But if that's true, the universe needs a better signal.
Sarah Ockler
#40. Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
George Eliot
#41. Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
Nawal El Saadawi
#42. Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#43. Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others
Sunday Adelaja
#44. To change somebody's behavior, change the level of respect she receives by giving her a fine reputation to live up to. Act as though the trait you are trying to influence is already one of the person's outstanding characteristics.
Dale Carnegie
#45. Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
Thad Cochran
#46. If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.
Franz Grillparzer
#47. For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.
Chip Heath
#48. I guarantee it will change your life, but only because everything does, however small.
Johnny Rich
#49. Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
Stephen Covey
#50. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
Oprah Winfrey
#51. We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.
C. Terry Warner
#52. You can't make a difference unless you are different.
Chris Hodges
#53. You can't change nature, son!"
"Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.
Kitty Richards
#54. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
Richard Rohr
#55. This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.
Peter Gleick
#56. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.
Archibald Marwizi
#57. I have not found my perspective on my career change. What I have found is that my life in general has been more fulfilling. To be able to influence an individual's life and on who they become as a person is a very rewarding feeling.
Phil Mickelson
#58. At the end of the day, what qualifies people to be called "leaders" is their capacity to influence others to change their behavior in order to achieve important results.
Kerry Patterson
#59. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
Pearl Zhu
#60. The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.
Johnny Hunt
#61. Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
Alice Waters
#62. The past cannot change what is to come. The work that you do each and every day is the only true way to improve and prepare yourself for what is to come. You cannot change the past, but you can influence the future by what you do today. -
John Wooden
#63. The body is holographic; therefore, when you change one biomarker you influence them all.
Deepak Chopra
#64. It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
Bob Goff
#65. If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.
Peprah Boasiako
#66. If there has been one overriding change in poetic practice, it is that under the influence of free verse the poets have made a primary virtue out of exactitude and economy of meaning: this has replaced metrical skill as the first thing the poet tunes to.
Martin Langford
#67. Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.
Lidia Yusupova
#68. If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.
Van Jones
#69. It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one ... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top.
Agatha Christie
#70. 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.
Lev S. Vygotsky
#71. Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#72. If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.
Richard Rohr
#73. I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change people's lives. It's so cerebral, you never know who you can affect out there.
Denzel Whitaker
#74. USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#75. Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.
Kim Harrison
#76. To read is to empower,
To empower is to write,
To write is to influence,
To influence is to change,
To change is to live.
Jane Evershed
#77. To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.
Theodore Zeldin
#78. The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.
Gary Kildall
#79. The enormous influence of novelty
the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment
is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.
John Ruskin
#80. Welcome to the 'Age of Influence,' where anyone can build an audience and effect change, advocate brands, build relationships and make a difference.
Ted Rubin
#81. You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.
Mark Twight
#82. I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!
Billy Graham
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