Quotes about Influence
If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over you.
— Sarah Young
Our churches have not discipled people in the last forty years in Christoform power but have instead discipled them into playing Babylon's power games. They have decided who might be their next king, only to realize that kings become wild things. Instead of giving more and more power to presidents, to senators, to representatives, to Washington DC and states and cities and villages and towns, we need to search again for Christoform power.
— Scot McKnight
David Brooks, commenting on the workplace, once said, "Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to gradually transform who you are. When you choose to work at a certain company, you are turning yourself into the sort of person who works in that company
— Scot McKnight
All of this leads us to one central question for our own lives today: How much of our faith is tied to our own nation and its power?
— Scot McKnight
In the Roman Empire a child's religion was determined not by some choice in the teenage years but by that child's family.
— Scot McKnight
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
— George W. Bush
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
— Harry S. Truman
Self-sacrifice is essential to leadership. You will give, give all the time.
— Napoleon Hill
It is for us and our time...to say the right makes might.
— Abraham Lincoln
Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
— Bill Hybels
At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.
— Brigham Young
It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.
— Charles Dickens