Top 60 Quotes About Influencing Others
#1. 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
#2. No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.
Arthur Koestler
#3. Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
Farshad Asl
#4. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
#5. We best serve our Father in Heaven by righteously influencing others and serving them.
Richard G. Scott
#6. If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.
Johnny Hunt
#7. Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.
Albert Einstein
#8. I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.
Justin Bieber
#9. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way
Robin Crow
#10. I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.
Winona Ryder
#11. If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.
Reggie Joiner
#12. I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
Imogen Cunningham
#13. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#14. I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens ... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
Lionel Richie
#15. I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.
Martti Ahtisaari
#16. I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
Jack Dangermond
#17. Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.
Herbert Simon
#18. I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.
Virginia Woolf
#19. The end times were not the end times after all. The end times were always coming but never here, always nearby and influencing us but never realized.
Philip K. Dick
#20. I'm trying to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and Bad Boy, influencing people culturally but having hits at the same time.
Hit-Boy
#21. Only individuals can desire and act. The existence of an institution such as government becomes meaningful only through influencing the actions of those individuals who are and those who are not considered as members.
Murray Rothbard
#22. The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.
James W. Black
#24. Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.
Aubrey De Grey
#25. The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.
Ann Leckie
#26. Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
C. Robert Kehler
#27. It may take many voices for people to hear the same message.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#28. It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#29. Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking
Nabil Khalil Basma
#30. When an influencing idea comes to life, people cannot exactly predict all its inevitable consequences.
Eraldo Banovac
#31. Well ... you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way
especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place.
Bob Dylan
#32. Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
Maxim Gorky
#33. The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality ... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.
Gisele Freund
#34. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
Dale Carnegie
#35. If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.
Mark Munoz
#36. What is really inspiriting and ennobling in the doctrine of freewill, is the conviction that we have real power over the formation of our own character; that our will, by influencing some of our circumstances, can modify our future habits or capabilities of willing.
John Stuart Mill
#37. A person is made up of a Mind, a Body and a Spirit, rather than these being separate they are always influencing the others.
Elizabeth Ashley
#38. Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.
Ordway Tead
#39. Can you imagine what you would be like if you didn't have anyone close who was capable of influencing you? Anyone to point out your flaws, to confront you when you went too far, to correct you when you did something wrong?
Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera
#40. 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
#41. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. - Ingrid Bengis
K. Akhter
#43. I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living.
Arti Honrao
#44. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
Steve Jobs
#45. Thoughts have power, influencing humanity's collective path. The difference between Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler lies, ultimately, in how they thought. A thought can change the world for the better - or damn it forever.
Diane Shauer
#46. The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.
Vladimir Lenin
#47. Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure.
Archibald Marwizi
#48. To influence others, we must know what is influencing them ... and they must know that we get it.
Bill Crawford
#49. The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.
Denis Healey
#50. Force, not persuasion, not discussion, is the legitimate instrument for influencing and policing the hockey mind. Fighting in hockey is one of the most magnificent and eloquent displays of refinement in all of sports.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#51. Covertly influencing decision processes such as that the resulting decision is aligned with higher-order desires may actually enhance autonomy.
Cass R. Sunstein
#53. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
Dan Kimball
#54. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
#55. Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.
Henry Drummond
#56. 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
#57. The goal of medicine is peculiarly, the goal of making itself unneccessary: of influencing life so that what is medicine today becomes mere commonsense tomorrow.
Adolf Meyer
#58. When you watch CNN and they're giving you news based on tweets that people are sending out, you realize that society is really changing. The collective public have a really big voice that they didn't previously have, and they're influencing the trajectory of how we are socially with one another.
Megan Fox
#59. The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
John C. Maxwell
#60. I most certainly think we are influencing the way women think about themselves.
Kam Williams