Top 100 Quotes About Influence Of Others
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others'.
Steve Backley
#4. Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.
Romare Bearden
#5. Are you a SNIOP? Someone who is Sensitive to the Negative Influence Of Others?
Zig Ziglar
#6. 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
#7. [Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.
A.J. Darkholme
#8. When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.
Gina McCarthy
#9. If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
John C. Maxwell
#10. The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#11. It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers.
Benjamin Franklin
#12. Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others.
Cindy Ann Peterson
#13. You know you have influence when people start noticing your absence more than the presence of others.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.
Louis Pasteur
#15. Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.
Abraham Verghese
#16. We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
Wendy Kopp
#17. 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
#18. Influence is having people follow you because of what you represent,
Paul Larsen
#19. The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.
Dixon Edward Hoste
#20. I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.
Mark Twain
#21. If we could carry an awareness of being with us into each day, allowing it to influence the way we do things, and how we relate to others, we might find ourselves living a very different kind of life; maybe then we would fully embrace the deeper truth of what it means to be a human being.
Stephen Denham
#22. Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion.
Dan Pontefract
#23. power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get the outcomes one wants.
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
#24. Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.
Muhammad Yunus
#25. if we as consumers do not understand what marketing does to us, we are not defining what is enough; we are letting others determine the definition for us. Does the pull of new clothes for a new season influence your decision-making and purchasing power?
Jeff Shinabarger
#26. In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.
Alison Weir
#27. I take every opportunity to articulate to others the ways that they have blessed and influenced me. I hold sweet memories of making the opportunity to thank teachers who have influenced me. I encourage everyone to seize opportunities to tell people who have made a gift of knowledge or influence.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#28. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.
Sharon Salzberg
#29. Can you live without charm, intimidation, or some form of influence over others? Without making others do your bidding on some level? You flirt, they react one way or another. Everything is manipulation.
Wildbow
#30. Locate your own territory and help others achieve theirs
Sunday Adelaja
#31. Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
John C. Maxwell
#32. 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
#33. If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
Patti Smith
#34. 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
#35. The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised
Albert Bandura
#36. How much is our life governed by the lives and past actions of others?
Ahdaf Soueif
#37. The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.
Philip K. Dick
#38. Others, including those with a social theory influence, talk about securitization primarily in terms of practices, context, and power relations that characterize the construction of threat images.
Thierry Balzacq
#39. A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
Vanessa Carlton
#40. 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
#41. The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
Johnny Hunt
#42. How many people came and stayed a certain time,
Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you
Like light behind windblown fog and sand
Filtered and influenced by it, until no part
Remains that is surely you.
John Ashbery
#43. The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
Baron De Montesquieu
#44. The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
#45. The fear of not measuring up robs us of seeing the value in our influence, and it keeps us on a perpetual quest to be better than others.
Jenni Catron
#46. The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
Charles Horton Cooley
#47. Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
Dalai Lama
#48. Don't let others influence your life ... make your own decisions if you want your life to be governed by self ... That's lesson for self ... learn it to avoid tensions and problems in your life ...
Debolina Bhawal
#49. We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others.
Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn
Sameh Elsayed
#50. Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution.
Robert Andrews Millikan
#51. The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.
John C. Maxwell
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.
Alice Hegan Rice
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy Adams
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Influence is not about what you can do but how you use it to change the lives of others
Sunday Adelaja
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.
Johnny Hunt
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Stop focusing on what others keep doing wrong; Be positive. Be a light & influence for others. Make a difference in our world.
Timothy Pina
#75. 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
#76. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#77. 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
#78. Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?
Stephen R. Covey
#79. While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
Robert A. Caro
#80. Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
Ken Blanchard
#89. ... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that we may possess over the destiny of others...
Germaine De Stael
#90. Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#91. 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
#92. 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.
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
John C. Maxwell
#98. 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.
#99. 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
#100. 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
