Top 100 Quotes About Leadership Influence
#1. 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.
#2. Your growth and involvement must begin to show lasting footprints as you exude maximum effectiveness and significance. Your leadership influence must translate into a source of inspiration for your peers and those who look at you as a leader.
#3. Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you'll provide.
#4. When you have defined your mission, values and attitudes in the context of leadership influence and excellence, you also need to conduct a personal audit, checking how aligned they are to your current leadership practices. Where necessary, begin to make adjustments.
#5. 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!
#6. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
#7. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
#8. 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.
#9. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.
#10. 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?
#11. 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
#12. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.
#13. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
#14. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
#15. The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.
#16. 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.
#17. Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.
#18. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
#19. Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.
#20. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
#21. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
#22. We can influence people for bad or good.
#23. Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.
#24. 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.
#25. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
#26. 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.
#27. Influence is about being genuine.
#28. Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption.
#29. Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus.
#30. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
#31. 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.
#32. You can't make a difference unless you are different.
#33. My responsibility is leadership, and the minute I get negative, that is going to have an influence on my team.
#34. To influence others must keep growing themselves.
#35. 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.
#36. In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
#37. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
#38. 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.
#39. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.
#40. 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.
#41. 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.
#42. Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
#43. Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.
#44. Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.
#45. Social media is the greatest leadership tool ever invented. It gives you the opportunity to amplify your voice, extend your influence, and create a tribe of passionate followers who want to hear from you.
#46. In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.
#47. Leadership is influencing others through modeling.
#48. Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
#49. 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.
#50. 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.
#51. 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.
#52. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
#53. Chits knew no ideology.
#54. 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.
#55. If your lives connect with other people you have influence.
#56. Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone
#57. 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.
#58. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
#59. Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.
#60. You cannot lead people you do not influence.
#61. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
#62. You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
#63. Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
#64. As a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: What you create and What you allow.
#65. If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.
#66. A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
#67. The great actors always play themselves.
#68. 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.
#69. 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.
#70. Leader of Character: someone who uses influence to achieve a moral or ethical goal.
#71. 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.
#72. Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.
#73. Leadership is service, not position.
#74. 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.
#75. Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.
#76. Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership.
#77. What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.
#78. 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.
#79. 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.
#80. 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.
#81. He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.
#82. 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.
#83. It is what the "I" stands for - Information, Innovation, Insight, Improvement, or Influence, that needs to be represented by CIOs in the Boardroom.
#84. Open Leadership: the act of engaging others to influence and execute a coordinated and harmonious conclusion.
#85. In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.
#86. The web of trust is built at eye level, peer to peer.
#87. To predict is to control, to co-create is to influence what you would like to bring into being.
#88. 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.
#89. Psychology of small things rules.
#90. 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.
#91. Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
#92. Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
#93. 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)
#94. Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.
#95. 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
#96. 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!
#97. The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
#98. Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.
#99. He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
#100. You cannot kill satire.
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