Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Influence. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Influence Quotes And Sayings by 84 Authors including Donatella Versace,Lindsey Stirling,Chris Cornell,Teju Cole,Eric Hoffer for you to enjoy and share.

My main influence is - it's music. It lifts the spirit. I am always listening to music. And sometimes what inspires me is a little sound or some small arrangement. I really do listen to music continuously all day long - very loud, so people can't stand to be around me anymore. -- Donatella Versace

Make your influence a good one.
Act in a way you would be proud of even if the whole world was watching, because your example could mean the world to just one person. -- Lindsey Stirling

Everybody is influenced by someone. -- Chris Cornell

The original sense of the word 'influence' is 'to flow into.' For the most part, these writers that I admire ... their style flows into me without my intervention, which is what explains the broad range of writers who I've been compared with; it reflects my reading. -- Teju Cole

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. -- Eric Hoffer

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform. -- Johnny Hunt

You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. -- Scott Adams

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. -- Johnny Hunt

Whatever is our 'contribution' to a situation..
Is all that we can 'influence' to alter/improve the situation..
In our control therefore, is this INFLUENCE! -- Abha Maryada Banerjee

Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen. -- Bob Burg

The stewardship of influence. What have you done with influence? -- Johnny Hunt

The three social influences that we have emphasized - information, peer pressure, and priming - can easily be enlisted by private and public nudgers. As we will see, both business and governments can use the power of social influence to promote many good (and bad) causes. -- Richard H. Thaler

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL! -- Laura Fitton

The people that you have around you are your biggest influence. -- Rj Mitte

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. -- William Ellery Channing

With great influence comes great responsibility. -- Melanie Iglesias

Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves. -- Travis Bradberry

Use your influence to make impact and help others grow -- Sunday Adelaja

We can influence people for bad or good. -- Johnny Hunt

Let's influence ourselves, let's influence others. -- Vladimir Raykov

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work. -- Travis Bradberry

Your greatest path of influence is love. -- Mollie Marti

Everything I listen to is influential in some way. -- Joanna Noelle Levesque

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy. -- Johnny Hunt

Affluence means influence. -- Jack London

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. -- Gilbert Gottfried

All human beings wield influence - a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care. -- Richelle E. Goodrich

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould -- Oswald Chambers

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it. -- Thelonious Monk

My major influence was my ten years older sister. -- Willa Ford

Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response? -- Stephen R. Covey

two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. -- Simon Sinek

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence. -- John C. Maxwell

Everyone is influencing the people around them one way or another. -- Robin S. Sharma

Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them. -- Millicent Fenwick

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people. -- Maisie Williams

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. -- Noam Chomsky

The people who influence us are those who have stood unconsciously for the right thing. They are like the stars and the lilies, and the joy of God flows through them all the time. -- Oswald Chambers

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. -- Roy T. Bennett

I feel that if you're in the public eye in any way that you do have a little bit of influence on people. -- Mike Ness

Please repeat: Influence is Not popularity. -- Brian Solis

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else. -- Johnny Hunt

I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact - the more influence you had, the more impact you could create ... The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower. -- Emerson Spartz

Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership. -- Aubrey Malphurs

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should. -- James Boswell

But I am influenced by the world that says I influence it. The world I live in is my influence. -- Kenzo Takada

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love. -- Robert Holden

True influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes ... the secret smile in the eyes of a friend -- Thornton Wilder

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side. -- Isaac Hayes

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. -- Augustus William Hare

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are. -- Paul Butcher

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them. -- John C. Maxwell

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association. -- Jim Rohn

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip. -- Nancy Gibbs

I am not above the influence, I am not below it, I am the influence. -- Vernon Scott

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them ... and they must know that we get it. -- Bill Crawford

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view. -- Robert Rauschenberg

You must be open and influenceable; then ironically, you will also discover an increase in your own power to influence -- Stephen R. Covey

If you can engage the influencer's passions, and work with them to craft a compelling logical appeal, then you can leverage the credibility of the influencer to actually sway hearts and minds. -- Tom Webster

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement -- Phil Harding

The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit. -- Robert Genn

I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent.
Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise. -- Margo Rabb

All influence is immoral -- Oscar Wilde

To influence others must keep growing themselves. -- Johnny Hunt

Influencers are dreamers. They are leaders with a vision. -- Johnny Hunt

Everything you do has some effect, some impact. -- Dalai Lama

I feel like I've influenced in the sense that if you want to do it, do it. If you don't want to do it, don't do it. But don't rely on what people are saying you can do or saying what you can't do. -- Lance Mountain

We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing. -- C. Terry Warner

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you. -- Henry Drummond

Influencers connect with others before they take them anywhere. -- Johnny Hunt

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. -- Orison Swett Marden

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people. -- Anne Sweeney

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. -- George Washington

Influence is not government. -- George Washington

People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced. -- T. S. Eliot

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact. -- Ernie Harwell

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be. -- Caroline Wells Healey Dall

There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling. -- Robert Cialdini

You were born to influence, you were called to influence, your existence is a great influence to all nations. -- Euginia Herlihy

The next two sources of influence that routinely act on you are equally easy to spot. The people who surround you both motivate and enable your habits. -- Kerry Patterson

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. -- Margot Asquith

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness. -- Paul Weller

Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests. -- Ben Carson

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others. -- Bill Crawford

When two people meet, as long as there is any form of rapport maintained, the person with the most certainty will eventually influence ther other person. -- Tony Robbins

Everything...affects everything -- Jay Asher

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either. -- Dave Brubeck

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything that is done, Has an impact". -- Johnson

The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. -- Charles Dickens

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other. -- Marcel Dzama

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question -- Margaret Mitchell

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out. -- Lauryn Hill

Well ... you know, you can influence all kinds of people, but sometimes it gets in the way
especially if somebody is accusing you of influencing somebody that you had no interest in influencing in the first place. -- Bob Dylan

Everything . . . affects everything. The -- Jay Asher

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way. -- Jean Paul Gaultier

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. -- Dalai Lama

Welcome to the 'Age of Influence,' where anyone can build an audience and effect change, advocate brands, build relationships and make a difference. -- Ted Rubin

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence. -- Paul Caponigro