Quotes About Influence

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

Purse not your opinion, for the weak and dimwitted leader shall seek to surround thyself with minions'."

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.' A strong central government led by an effective executive was needed, as Washington had warned.

Foreign influence in domestic politics could be deadly to any democracy.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influences... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

Your thoughts have little legs that go out & create what you think about.

Buddy was offered a number of more important jobs. He turned them all down, but helped the Leadership Council find other good candidates. His lack of ambition came to be seen as great humility. The birds loved him even more.

Pull Together the Guiding Team. Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change—one with leadership skills, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency.

Nothing undermines change more than behavior by important individuals that is inconsistent with the verbal communication.

Major change is often said to be impossible unless the head of the organization is an active supporter.

Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.

Never underestimate the power of clever people to help others see the possibilities, to help them generate a feeling of faith, and to change behavior.

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

And death, for those who live on, is the end of a chapter rather than the end of a book, and although the dead may have no more part to play as characters, their influence may continue right though the story.

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I've ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.

One night a father overheard his son pray: "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is." Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." —Anonymous

The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

When the Bible uses the term heart, it means the causal core of your personhood. The heart is your directional system. The heart is your steering wheel. Your behavior isn't caused by the situations and relationships outside of you. This passage teaches that your experiences influence, but do not determine, your behavior. Your behavior is shaped and caused by how your heart reacts to and interacts with the situations and relationships that are outside of you.

Know the spirit of the age and consciously resist conformity to it (Romans 12:2). As D. L. Moody said, "The ship belongs in the water of the world, but if the water gets in the ship, it sinks.

The aim of leadership is not to demonstrate the superiority of the leader, but to bring out all the strengths of people that will move them forward to the desired goal.

Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.