Quotes about Influence

And when his mother’s brothers spoke all these words about him in the presence of all the leaders of Shechem, their hearts were inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”

But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my sweetness and my good fruit, to hold sway over the trees?’

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

But Absalom urged him, so the king sent Amnon and the rest of his sons.

Then go to the king and speak these words to him.” And Joab put the words in her mouth.

So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.

Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”

The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.

He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.