Influencing Leadership Quotes & Sayings

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past. — John Diefenbaker

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer

Timing is a critical issue when it comes to succession. Passing the baton too early or too late could both cause irreparable damage. The timing just has to be right, but again you are responsible for creating or influencing the right conditions over the course of your leadership tenure. — Archibald Marwizi

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone. — Leonard Sweet

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment. — Charlie Huston

Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus. — Dan Kimball

Gillespie called the plan "REDMAP," an acronym for the Redistricting Majority Project. To implement it, he took over the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a nonprofit group that had previously functioned as a catchall bank account for corporations interested in influencing state laws. All he needed was enough money to put REDMAP into action. — Jane Mayer

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter F. Drucker

Dimitri is dead," she said.
It was a statement, not a question, but she was looking to me for confirmation. I wondered if I'd given away something, some hint that there was still more to the story. Or maybe she just needed the certainty of those words. And for a moment, I considered telling them that Dimitri was dead. It was what the Academy would tell them, what the guardians would tell them. It would be easier on them ... but somehow, I couldn't stand to lie to them - even if it was a comforting lie. Dimitri would have wanted the whole truth, and his family would too.
"No," I said, and for a heartbeat, hope sprang up in everyone's faces - at least until I spoke again. "Dimitri's a Strigoi. — Richelle Mead

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Leadership is influencing others through modeling. — Farshad Asl

It had never occurred to the lords of the consumer society that consumerism as a political philosophy might one day manifest the grave systemic instabilities that Communism had. But as those instabilities multiplied, the country had cracked. Civil society shriveled in the pitiless reign of cash. As the last public spaces were privatized, it became harder and harder for American culture to breathe. Not only were people broke, but they were taunted to madness by commercials, and pitilessly surveilled by privacy-invading hucksters. An ever more aggressive consumer-outreach apparatus caused large numbers of people to simply abandon their official identities.. It was no longer any fun to be an American citizen. — Bruce Sterling

The leadership challenge for celebrities and those in the limelight includes turning focus from being self-centred to influencing vulnerable and gullible youngsters, especially teenagers, in a positive way; realising that it is possible to entertain and increase following without promoting societal vices like drug & alcohol abuse, irresponsible sexual behaviour, prejudice of all kinds, criminal heroism, gangsterism and all forms of violence. — Archibald Marwizi

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good. — James Hunter

My hair curls like a yeti's pubes in this humidity - I'm starting to figure out why product was invented! — Amy Lane

We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good. — Leif Erikson

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. — John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. — Ordway Tead

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you. — Rob Liano

Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change. — Pearl Zhu

Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way — Robin Crow

Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking — Nabil Khalil Basma

If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well. — Johnny Hunt