Quotes About Influence

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

There are no office hours for leaders.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.