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Quotes About Influence

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.
~ Mark Twain
In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.
~ Frederick Douglass
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
~ Henrik Ibsen
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot easily be withstood.
~ Ralph Cudworth
Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step - will we operate in God's all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?
~ Lysa TerKeurst
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
~ Adrienne Rich
Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
~ Paul Claudel
You've been my inspiration, through the lies you were the truth. My world is a better place because of you.
~ Celine Dion
When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
~ Mary J. Blige
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
~ Derek Prince
To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
~ Edward Abbey
It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.
~ Jill Stein
Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
~ Mark Twain
If the truth isn't enough, then you must become stronger at presenting it.
~ Jim Rohn
[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.
~ Josephine de Beauharnais
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
~ Ellen G. White
psychological factors
~ Shere Hite
And to leave the people we meet and the places we visit better than we found them.
~ Sheri Dew
Because again, if Lucifer can make an aberration seem normal- or better yet, evil seem normal, he has made striking inroads.
~ Sheri L. Dew