Quotes About Influence

Do not think to be leader in office; think to be leader in your own business.

True leaders do not command their followers, but they inspire them, they do not lord over them, but are examples before them, and do not lead through compulsions, but through liberty. Ask your nature.

We become the way we speak.

Your Gift opens the road of success to you and access to many people.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Our genes are a predisposition, but our genes are not our fate," I wrote to him. "If they were, then you'd be a victim, but you're not—you're one of the most powerful people on the planet.

Our feelings connect us in powerful ways. As Maya Angelou once wrote, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I was merely thinking that it may have been a very grave mistake to introduce you to Lady C. If the pair of you ever put your minds to it, you could probably topple governments together." I smiled as I pocketed the weapon. "One thing at a time, dear Stoker. One thing at a time.

We looked like a girl gang that would have the Queen as our leader, all low heels and no-nonsense curls.

I would not like him to be a pawn in someone else's political gamesmanship.

He was a Frenchman through and through, and I had always been susceptible to Gallic flourishes.

because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

I gave it to him because, in my experience, it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

That's the trouble with women," she said. "We know what we oughtn't do, and yet we do it anyway. Nature has given us instincts, but when a man comes along, we hear only his voice, and not our own

it is far better to tell a man what he wants to hear and then do as you please than attempt to reason with him.

A good teacher can change the course of a life.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

When it comes to sisters, it seems one stays and one goes, one remains bound and the other is set free. She is who she is in good part because of who Gloria isn't. In order to be herself, in order to be different from her sister, she had to take what was left over, the opposite, unchosen road. She is both glad and furious about it.

we learned about power and powerlessness from our mothers and fathers first, right? And they learned from their mothers and fathers, and so on and so on? Fix that shit.

Nothing is more intimate than someone who knows your heart. Nothing is more dangerous than someone who knows your heart. Holding someone's heart like that is power.

Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.

I didn't think it was such a hot idea to encourage kids to believe they led movie-star lives, even for a night.