Quotes about Influence
or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
— Proverbs 22:25
Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
— Proverbs 25:15
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
— Proverbs 31:3
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
— Ecclesiastes 7:19
As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
— Ecclesiastes 8:8
The calm words of the wise are heeded over the shouts of a ruler among fools.
— Ecclesiastes 9:17
The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.
— Ecclesiastes 12:11
“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”
— Isaiah 3:4
A man will seize his brother within his father’s house: “You have a cloak—you be our leader! Take charge of this heap of rubble.”
— Isaiah 3:6
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
— Isaiah 3:12
For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
— Isaiah 9:16
He brings the princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth meaningless.
— Isaiah 40:23