Quotes About Influence

A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.

I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.

Consider the idea that charisma can be as much a liability as an asset. Your strength of personality can sow the seeds of problems, when people filter the brutal facts from you.

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.

Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.