Quotes About Influence

If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being "right" as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.

You cannot kindle afire in any other heart until it is burning within your -ELEANOR DOAN

It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.

Managers work with processes—leaders work with people.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

The most important personal-growth phrase you will ever hear a good leader say to you is "follow me.

Leadership is often misunderstood. When people hear that someone has an impressive title or an assigned leadership position, they assume that individual to be a leader. Sometimes that's true. But titles don't have much value when it comes to leading.

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could." —STEVE JOBS

Asking and hearing people's opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, 'Good job.' " —Sam Walton

Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.

The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned. The only thing a title can buy is a little time—either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

5. Each person's leadership is best exercised in his or her area of giftedness (v. 31). When we discover our gifts, we will naturally lead in those areas where we are most productive, intuitive, comfortable, influential, and satisfied.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated." —Fred W. Smith

A person with a negative self-image will expect the worst, damage relationships, and find others who are similarly negative.

people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.