Top 100 Influence Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.”

— Stephen R. Covey

52. “Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.”

— Brian Tracy

53. “Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.”

— John C. Maxwell

54. “Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

55. “Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on their world.”

— John C. Maxwell

56. “You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”

— Oprah Winfrey

57. “Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

58. “Leave people better than you found them.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

59. “Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.”

— Andy Stanley

60. “Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.”

— David Deida

61. “Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.”

— Jim Rohn

62. “My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.”

— Dale Carnegie

63. “Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.”

— John C. Maxwell

64. “A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

65. “We believe people with passion can change the world for the better. That’s what we believe. And we believe that those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that actually do.”

— Steve Jobs

66. “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

67. “Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

— John C. Maxwell

68. “Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.”

— Margaret Mead

69. “The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

70. “We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe. Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is.”

— Serge King

71. “We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

— Billy Graham

72. “Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.”

— John C. Maxwell

73. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

74. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

— Brian Tracy

75. “The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.”

— Colin Powell

76. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”

— Harriet Tubman

77. “Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.”

— Brian Tracy

78. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

79. “It’s not how many followers you have, it’s how many care. It’s not width, it’s depth. It’s not how many impressions you get, it’s how much attention you get.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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

— Myles Munroe

81. “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

— Henry David Thoreau

82. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

— James Baldwin

83. “The more you inspire, the more people will inspire you.”

— Simon Sinek

84. “Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”

— Margaret Mead

85. “Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students’ lives really do.”

— Andy Hargreaves

86. “Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.”

— Eric Thomas

87. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

— Albert Schweitzer

88. “We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.”

— Ellen G. White

89. “If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”

— Steve Maraboli

90. “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.”

— Anita Roddick

91. “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”

— W. E. B. Du Bois

92. “It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.”

— Isaac Asimov

93. “The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can’t be achieved alone.”

— Leonard Sweet

94. “There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”

— Simon Sinek

95. “The voice you believe will determine the future you experience.”

— Steven Furtick

96. “Influence is about being genuine.”

— Johnny Hunt

97. “I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.”

— Erin Gruwell

98. “The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.”

— Malcolm Gladwell

99. “Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.”

— Zig Ziglar

100. “Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.”

— John C. Maxwell