Quotes about Influence

Be around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant influence.
Jim Rohn

Influence may be the highest level of human skills.
Author Unknown

A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams

If any outside figure influenced my life early on, it was Walt Disney.
Nan S. Russell, from Wishing and Hoping

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
Deepak Chopra

The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.
Napoleon Hill

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George

Those coaches who have enthusiasm for what they are doing influence the rest of the team.
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from free ebook, Good-bye Manager, Hello Coach!

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Korean Proverb

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Kenneth Blanchard

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
John Hancock

Books we read, music we listen to, it all influences our lives.
Catherine Pulsifer

Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Becker

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.
Author Unknown, from I've Learned

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

By influencing our subconscious minds, we can achieve our goals.
Anita Foley, from Trick Your Brain into Creating Beliefs

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing

I believe that we all have the choice of attitude and if a quote, story or poem could influence or make someone see a situation in a more positive way, then I would be making a difference in people's lives.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Forever Young

You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And you teach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life.
Eric Allenbaugh

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

"The Power of Positive Thinking". A book that has positively influenced millions of people around the world!
Catherine Pulsifer, from Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
Leslie Stephen

I picked my top 10 quotes thinking about my children. If I had to suggest 10 quotes that would influence their life; these are the top 10 quotes that I would choose...
Catherine Pulsifer, from Top 10 Quotes for 2005