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Quotes About Influence

Business is in itself a power.
~ Garet Garrett
Great men are almost always bad men.
~ Lord Acton
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
~ George Orwell
I am the slave of an internal power more powerful than my education.
~ Arnold Schoenberg
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
~ Felicia Day
Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Collateral
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
~ Paul Wellstone
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
~ George B. McClellan
Every spoof gives more power to the original.
~ Shepard Fairey
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.
~ Mary Todd Lincoln
One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
~ Lars von Trier
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
~ Barbara Coloroso
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
~ Hans Morgenthau
All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.
~ David Hume
It lies not in our power to love or hate, for will in us is overruled by fate.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.
~ Jonathan Barnbrook
He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
~ Otto von Bismarck
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.
~ Eva Longoria
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.
~ James MacGregor Burns
There is a transcendent power in example.
~ Sophie Swetchine