Quotes About Influence

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.

I have felt uncomfortable having people say, "You're my idol," because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot.

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.

It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

If we don't play God, who will?

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.