Top 100 Influence Leadership Quotes
#1. Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.
John C. Maxwell
#3. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
#4. Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.
Peprah Boasiako
#5. The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.
John C. Maxwell
#6. The biblical preacher talks about the poor man's wisdom that saved a city but he was immediately forgotten. A poverty of ideas, contributions, uniqueness or influence, will overshadow the visibility of good potential. Keep those ideas flowing and you will not be forgotten.
Archibald Marwizi
#7. His (Washington's) apparent paralysis was the result of balancing two imperatives: his reputation against the survival of the Continental Army.
Joseph J. Ellis
#8. Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you'll provide.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. 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
#11. Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.
Carmine Gallo
#12. Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#13. Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act
Craig Dent
#14. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring.
Kerry Patterson
#15. People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)
LIFE Magazine
#16. Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
Israelmore Ayivor
#17. Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
Myles Munroe
#18. Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.
Bob Goshen
#20. If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.
J. Oswald Sanders
#21. To predict is to control, to co-create is to influence what you would like to bring into being.
Pearl Zhu
#22. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
Jeff Jarvis
#23. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
Pearl Zhu
#24. Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#25. He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
John Kasich
#26. Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.
Stefan Fatsis
#27. When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.
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John C. Maxwell
#28. One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.
Scott Farris
#30. It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.
Bill Hybels
#31. The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.
John C. Maxwell
#32. 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
#33. Control what you can. Influence what you should. Forget the rest.
Todd Stocker
#34. Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
Roger Harrison
#35. Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.
Farshad Asl
#36. Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.
Abraham Zaleznik
#37. A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.
Criss Jami
#38. Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.
Paul Sloane
#39. It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions of other human beings.
Tony Robbins
#40. Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.
Johnny Hunt
#41. Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
Charles R. Swindoll
#42. You plan to rob the world of its treasures if you decide to die with your potentials unleashed! The world needs your leadership influence; don't take it raw to the cemetery!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
Johnny Hunt
#44. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#45. 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
#46. Personal growth by tackling the 'big-picture" through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.
Archibald Marwizi
#47. You should use your influence to help other platforms succeed.
Johnny Hunt
#48. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.
John C. Maxwell
#49. Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.
Robin Sharma
#51. We can influence people for bad or good.
Johnny Hunt
#52. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#53. In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
Stephen Covey
#54. While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.
John C. Maxwell
#55. You can't make a difference unless you are different.
Chris Hodges
#56. The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.
Madison Grant
#57. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#58. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#59. Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
Andrew Zolli
#61. 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
#62. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
Dexter Hawk
#63. I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
Earl Browder
#64. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#65. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#66. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#67. Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
Robert Johnson
#68. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
#69. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.
Johnny Hunt
#70. We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.
Joe Paterno
#71. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
John C. Maxwell
#72. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.
John C. Maxwell
#73. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
Phil Harding
#74. The key to leadership remains influence. What kind of a leader are you and how do you deliberately model your leadership to achieve desired impact on those you influence or you seek to influence?
Archibald Marwizi
#75. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
A.J. Darkholme
#76. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
Ken Blanchard
#77. I think that there is a strong argument that our [USA's] leadership, our strength, our influence begins with having an economy that is producing good jobs with rising incomes, and I see the connection there.
Hillary Clinton
#78. What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.
Mike Crump
#79. Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#80. Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.
Michael Josephson
#81. Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.
Johnny Hunt
#82. Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.
Archibald Marwizi
#83. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.
Archibald Marwizi
#84. We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
Wendy Kopp
#86. If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.
Tony Dungy
#87. As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.
Henry Cloud
#88. You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#90. You cannot lead people you do not influence.
Johnny Hunt
#91. Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#92. If your lives connect with other people you have influence.
Johnny Hunt
#93. 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
#95. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#96. The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.
John Ferling
#97. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.
Greg Smith
#98. The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
Max McKeown
#99. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.
Tony Dovale
#100. Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
John C. Maxwell
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