Quotes About Influence

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Few men have gained power, or retained it, by using, in Lenin's words, "the methods of a finishing school for young ladies.

Her reaction signaled that his memory had the power to destroy.

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

When your leadership appeals to only one generation, you are limiting your leadership in the future. Leading cross-generationally occurs when you are able to lead people in your own generation, the generation that came before you, and the generation that comes behind you. Connecting to all generations is what forward leaders will do.

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.

I want to affect people like a clap of thunder, to inflame their minds with the breadth of my vision, the strength of my conviction and the power of my expression.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Power is the ability to get things done.

The world is not getting better by itself. Making the world a better place demands more and better leaders.

To women, therefore, the effect was broadly the same, however the message of male supremacy came packaged. All these systems - Judaism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam - were presented to them as holy, the result of divine inspiration transmitted from a male power to males empowered for this purpose, thereby enshrining maleness itself as power.

The more humans have mastered the world, the more it has taken on the taint of our own mortality. The world no longer seems deathless.

For most teenage girls, guys are everything. Boys validate their existence; they define who they are and where they stand in the world. You can talk to boys differently than your girlfriends. Until they screw you over, they can be really fun and comforting.

What I'm talking about is how we maintain our ethics and moral compass when we're in a group. Why? Because conflict is inevitable, and at some point one person will abuse his or her power over another person.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

a universe of possibility—the only place from which you can enroll other people.

Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side.

Who am I being that they are not shining?

I am the framework for everything that happens in my life.

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Any power she owned lay in her feigned indifference.

My name is Lily Florabella Truax Beaupre, named after the woman who helped my mother, the woman who became my ghost.