Quotes about Influence

Choose who will carry on your legacy. I don't know what you want to accomplish in life, but I can tell you this: a legacy lives on in people, not things. Too often leaders put their energy into organizations, buildings, systems, or other lifeless objects. But only people live on after we are gone. Everything else is temporary.

First we form habits, but then our habits form us.

If you could pick only one word to describe yourself, what would it be?

One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.

People don't want to be managed. They want to be led. Whoever heard of a world manager? World leader, yes. Education leader, yes. Political leader. Religious leader. Scout leader. Community leader. Labor leader. Business leader. Yes. They lead.

if you want people to act right toward you, you act right toward them. And many times you'll change them.

You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you've had color how you see things. It is your lens.

Treat them as if they are important; they will respond according to the way that you perceive them.

Not everyone wants to be out of the spotlight as she did. But it's important for a leader to learn to work in obscurity because it is a test of personal integrity. The key is being willing to do something because it matters, not because it will get you noticed.

We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become.

The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate." Influence is an invitation anyone can make to another person.

If you want to be a successful leader, learn to lead before you have a leadership position.