Top 100 Influence Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes

2. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Interesting Quotes

3. “A leader who produces other leaders multiplies their influence.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes

4. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Greatness Quotes

5. “Leadership is influence.”

— John C. Maxwell

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6. “The true measure of leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Impact Quotes

7. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Education Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Study Quotes

8. “Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Impact Quotes, Quotes About People

9. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Powerful Quotes, Character Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes

10. “Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Respect Quotes

11. “One of the surest ways of making a friend and influencing the opinion of another is to give consideration to his opinion, to let him sustain his feeling of importance.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Friendship Quotes

12. “Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes

13. “Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren’t, we should behave as though we are – cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.”

— Maya Angelou

14. “The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Smart Quotes

15. “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes, Growth Quotes, Quotes About People

16. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Knowledge Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

17. “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Mind Quotes, Achievement Quotes

18. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

19. “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

— W. Clement Stone

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Impact Quotes, Choices Quotes, Character Quotes

20. “Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Intelligent Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

21. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

22. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Quotes About People, Karma Quotes

23. “No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Clever Quotes

24. “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.”

— Malcolm X

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Impact Quotes

25. “The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”

— Jim Carrey

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Impact Quotes, Caring Quotes, Quotes About People

26. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Also featured in: Effort Quotes

27. “Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Teacher Quotes

28. “No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Different Quotes, Quotes About Ideas

29. “Be intentional about adding value to every person you meet every day.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About People

30. “Only you can control your future.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Future Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

31. “Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.”

— Marshall Goldsmith

Also featured in: Boss Quotes

32. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

— Robert Fulghum

Also featured in: Quotes About Children, Parenting Quotes, Marriage Quotes

33. “As soon as you seek to inspire others, it inspires the best in you.”

— Brendon Burchard

34. “We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.”

— B. J. Palmer

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes

35. “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Expectations Quotes, Smart Quotes

36. “You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Character Quotes

37. “Don’t use social media to impress people; use it to impact people.”

— Dave Willis

Also featured in: Impact Quotes

38. “You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that’s who you are. If you don’t want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Friendship Quotes

39. “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”

— Albert Schweitzer

Also featured in: Grateful Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Moving Quotes

40. “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Friends Quotes

41. “Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Moving Quotes

42. “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Expectations Quotes, Teacher Quotes

43. “Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people – people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.”

— Jack Canfield

Also featured in: Friends Quotes

44. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Government Quotes

45. “Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Quotes About Trust

46. “Advertising is the art of persuasion.”

— William Bernbach

47. “Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.”

— Jon Gordon

Also featured in: Graduation Quotes

48. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

— Malcolm X

49. “People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

50. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson