Quotes about Influence

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive.

Many people are driven by the need for approval. They allow the expectations of parents or spouses or children or teachers or friends to control their lives. Many adults are still trying to earn the approval of unpleasable parents. Others are driven by peer pressure, always worried by what others might think. Unfortunately, those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

Cultural lies conform us, but eternal truths transform us.

Galatians 5:18 asks, "Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?" (MSG).

Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it.

I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.