Quotes About Influence

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Fear's contagious, but so is courage.

Social control is best managed through fear.

Courage can be just as infectious as fear.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

That's my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

We lend power to the things we fear!

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.