Top 100 Influence Others Quotes
#1. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.
John C. Maxwell
#2. 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
#3. Your dreams will stir up the dreams of others and your gift of influence will influence others. You just have to keep dreaming and continue to do the things you were born to do.
Euginia Herlihy
#4. There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.
Guy Kawasaki
#5. To influence others, we must know what is influencing them ... and they must know that we get it.
Bill Crawford
#6. In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for.
Ben Tolosa
#7. 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
#8. To influence others must keep growing themselves.
Johnny Hunt
#9. There is no such thing as a self made spiritual leader. He is able to influence others spiritually only because the Spirit is able to work in and through him to a greater degree than in those he leads.
J. Oswald Sanders
#10. By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer
#11. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
Linda Chavez
#12. Influence others positively by being a teacher, coach, counselor, or mentor.
Stephen G. Post
#13. All these guiding principles in therapy confront the doctor with important ethical duties which can be summed up in the single rule: be the man through whom you wish to influence others.
C. G. Jung
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#18. The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.
John C. Maxwell
#19. 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
#20. Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.
Harvey MacKay
#21. 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
#22. Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
Charles R. Swindoll
#23. When you are a happy person, you'll influence others to behave positively toward you.
Alan E. Nelson
#24. You must maintain a state of happiness, state of joy to let the positive thoughts emanate from your mind.. If you are in a state of joy, your thoughts emanate positive energy, and you can influence others without much efforts.
Girdhar Joshi
#25. No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.
Napoleon Hill
#27. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#28. In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.
Rick Warren
#29. Use your influence to make impact and help others grow
Sunday Adelaja
#30. One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
Milton S. Hershey
#31. Stop focusing on what others keep doing wrong; Be positive. Be a light & influence for others. Make a difference in our world.
Timothy Pina
#32. 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
#33. Stuart Pearce will be a massive influence but we also need ten others to be
massive influences
Kevin Keegan
#34. If someone wants to do drugs ... as long as he or she isn't corrupting minors or driving under the influence or endangering others, shouldn't a person have that right?
Brad Pitt
#35. Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
Lajos Kossuth
#36. Influence is providing attention and value to others.
Laura Fitton
#37. Your influence as a leader will increase when you empower others' strengths, which in return equips them to pursue their callings, not their shortcomings.
Farshad Asl
#38. We spend our lives striving to be persons of influence and consequence, when all that is required is to consistently do good to others.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#39. I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R.A. Salvatore
#40. Not every man in the Senate is some kind of masterful schemer, exerting all his energies to acquire more power and influence at the expense of all others." "No," Isana agreed. "Some of them are incompetent schemers.
Jim Butcher
#42. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.
Johnny Hunt
#43. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.
Mensah Oteh
#44. I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very knowledgeable about painting. But it isn't something I have any influence over, so there isn't any point in worrying about it.
Peter Doig
#45. The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
Orison Swett Marden
#46. Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.
Henry Drummond
#47. Dave Rocha is a modern player out of the hard-bop tradition, with a beautiful sound and tremendous facility on the horn. You can hear the influence of Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and others in his playing, but Dave has his own voice, and it's a nice one!
Dan Feiszli
#48. Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others
Sunday Adelaja
#49. I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.
Juliana Hatfield
#50. Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
Victoria Osteen
#51. Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.
Stephen Covey
#52. Know in self that in giving a helpful influence, the magnifying of virtues in others and the minimizing of faults is the beginning of wisdom in dealing with others.
Edgar Cayce
#53. Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others are held in an iron vice of metaphysical theory, because by theories that they have never called in question.
Charles Sanders Peirce
#54. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams
#55. The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.
Mario Monti
#56. 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
#57. Happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
Alice Hegan Rice
#58. Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.
Brian Tracy
#59. Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
Zig Ziglar
#60. Negative thoughts and emotions are what obstruct our most basic aspiration - to be happy and to avoid suffering. When we act under their influence, we become oblivious to the impact our actions have on others: they are thus the cause of our destructive behavior both toward others and to ourselves.
Dalai Lama XIV
#61. Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
Alain De Botton
#62. The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hannah
#63. The spirit of gratitude is always pleasant and satisfying because it carries with it a sense of helpfulness to others; it begets love and friendship, and engenders divine influence. Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#64. There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.
Robert Cialdini
#65. For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
Henri Matisse
#66. It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.
A.J. Darkholme
#67. That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased;
Aristotle.
#68. Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.
Dalai Lama
#69. When men are able to influence so many others through their life and their example, they do not die.
Aleida Guevara
#70. The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
John C. Maxwell
#71. Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
Farshad Asl
#72. The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
#73. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#74. The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.
Billy Graham
#75. The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them
when they feel understood by you
that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
Stephen Cove
#76. Gaps in our lives drain the power needed to make a positive difference in the world.
Hyrum W. Smith
#77. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#78. 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
#79. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
#80. I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel - to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. If your actions don't excite, motivate or inspire others to do better, you're doing it wrong.
Peprah Boasiako
#82. The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.
John C. Maxwell
#83. Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.
John R. Dallas Jr.
#84. Because of our tendency to want what others want, and because of our inclination to see the choices of others as an efficient way to understand the world, our social networks can magnify what starts as an essentially random variation.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#85. Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#86. Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink ... others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.
Billy Graham
#87. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
Ken Blanchard
#88. A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.
Jimmy Carter
#89. Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?
Billy Graham
#91. 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
#92. For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about African American history, politics and even relationships: all of which would be missed if society merely focused on the "hook" and ignored the influence.
Carlos Wallace
#93. I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.
Erika M. Szabo
#94. Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
Oscar Wilde
#95. putting yourself in others' shoes so as to predict and influence what they will do. We
Avinash K. Dixit
#96. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits," and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate.
Charles Duhigg
#97. 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
#98. Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#99. Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.
Steve Backley
#100. Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others.
Mensah Oteh
