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Quotes About Influence

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
~ William Pitt
Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
~ Garry Kasparov
I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.
~ Owsley Stanley
Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
~ Charles Koch
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions.
~ Dorothea Lange
Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others.
~ Dalai Lama
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
~ Ben Marcus
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
~ Julius Caesar
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!
~ Sadie Calvano
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .
~ Bernard Arnault
Power tires only those who do not have it.
~ Giulio Andreotti
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
~ Henry Adams
The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.
~ Thomas S. Monson
The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.
~ Marlon Brando
All power is from within and therefore under our control
~ Robert Collier
For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.
~ Brandon Sanderson
We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.
~ Richard Stearns
Power wears out those who do not have it.
~ Mario Puzo
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~ Thomas Szasz
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
~ Roland Barthes
Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
~ Ralph Nader