Best Influencing People Quotes

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

If you want to change other people, a much better way to do it is to first understand who we are, understand our moral psychology, understand that we all think we’re right.

Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.

Stop worrying and start living.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

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

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

A pleasing personality helps you win friends and influence people. Add character to that formula, and keep those friends and maintain that influence.

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.

Musicians have the power to influence people and along with movie makers, they can reach and influence more people than any group of people, more than scientists and certainly more than politicians.

She didn’t smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.

Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you’re not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

The ability to connect and influence people, that’s the job of a leader. And we’re all leaders at some level.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

(Because being assaulted with maxi pads is a great way to win friends and influence people.)

Your reputation is what influences people to think, feel and talk about you the way they do.

The Ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable art known to man.

I have on my bookshelf a series of books with opposite titles: ‘The Alpha Strategy’ and the ‘Omega Strategy’; ‘Asia Rising’ and ‘Asia Falling’; ‘Free to Choose’ and ‘Free to Lose’; ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ and ‘How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.’ Visitors love the collection.

Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you’re revolted by. In fact, often it’s what you’re running away from.

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

Influencers influence people and the people who they influence.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, How can you make a movie during an election that’s about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people’s lives? To which my response was, Well, I hope so.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

We can influence people for bad or good.

Many media commercials encourage us to believe that if we buy a certain product, we can be physically appealing, or popular, or successful. According to the commercial message, it may be easy to make friends and influence people if we simply do what we’re told to do. It would be wonderful if that were true, but unfortunately life does not seem to work that way. What is inside of us can be much more important and influential than what is outside.

There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It’s something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven’t thought of before.

Now that I’m a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people.

In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks’ position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can – and have, in some cases – been able to educate and influence people.

I take responsibility for the times I was arrested and the things that I did. Me being 33 now, I look back on those times and I wish that a lot of things I didn’t do. I wish I could have back because I see how much I influence people. People wanna follow in my footsteps and I wish that I can now do more positive things, and that back then I’d done more positive things.

It’s my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way — even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family — others will want to emulate us and pass on our ideas, manners, and lifestyle to future generations. This is more than enough motivation for me to do good things in my life and teach my children to do the same.

I cannot change others, but I can influence others… we can’t change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can’t get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn’t grow up into.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they’re doing to influence people for good and for bad. There’s no doubt that we’re affected by our environment