Quotes About Influence

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.

Politics is activity in relation to power

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.

If you have power, you have to empower.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.