Quotes about Influence
Habit is necessary to give power.
— William Hazlitt
Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
— Brigham Young
Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
— James A. Garfield
Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.
— Joe Biden
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
— William Hazlitt
Power always brings with it responsibility.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
— Gloria Steinem
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
— Henry Ward Beecher
In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
— John Ortberg
The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.
— Marianne Williamson