Quotes about Influence
Cynics who say power is all that counts in politics forget that power without ideas is just improvisation.
— Michael Ignatieff
You can't get back to power by defining your project in negative terms. But it helps to have somebody in office who represents the opposite of what you believe.
— Michael Ignatieff
True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.
— Myles Munroe
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
— Philip Yancey
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
— Simon Sinek
Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.
— Tucker Max
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
— William Hazlitt
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
— Margaret Mead
And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?
— Rainbow Rowell
The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!
— Dorothy Day