Quotes About Influence

Exemplary leaders know that if they want to gain commitment and achieve the highest standards, they must be models of the behavior they expect of others.

In the end, leaders don't decide who leads. Followers do.

Change is the province of leaders. It is the work of leaders to inspire people to do things differently, to struggle against uncertain odds, and to persevere toward a misty image of a better future.

When leaders are doing their best, they Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart.

Leading by example is more effective than leading by command.

Who I am, what I do, and how I do it make a difference." And

The instrument of leadership is the self, and mastery of the art of leadership comes from mastery of the self.

The domain of leaders is the future. The work of leaders is change. The most significant contribution leaders make is not to today's bottom line; it is to the long-term development of people and institutions so they can adapt, change, prosper, and grow.

Leaders mobilize others to want to struggle for shared aspirations, and this means that, fundamentally, leadership is a relationship. Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.

At the height of his effectiveness, John Wesley was asked the secret of his impact for Christ around the world and reportedly answered, "When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

The power holder may be the person whose "private motives are displaced onto public objects and rationalized in terms of public interest

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

In brief, leaders with motive and power bases tap followers' motives in order to realize the purposes of both leaders and followers.

Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not.

Columbia Law School and Coolidge's Attorney

It lies not only in recognizing that not all human influences are necessarily coercive and exploitative, that not all transactions among persons are mechanical, impersonal, ephemeral. It lies in seeing that the most powerful influences consist of deeply human relationships in which two or more persons engage with one another.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.