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Go out today and preach the gospel and if you must, use words. – St. Francis of Assisi

Title, position, and authority may hold power, but influence travels through relationships. And in the end, influence is the fountainhead of power. – Erwin Raphael McManus

Be, and not seem. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to put a ding in the universe. – Steve Jobs, American Entrepreneur and Apple co-Founder

This is the essence of influence, to win the heart and soul of another person through the strength of your own character and personhood. – Erwin Raphael McManus

The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives. – Francis Chan

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently—they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. – Steve Jobs, American Entrepreneur and Apple co-Founder

Character is the resource from which influence draws. Relationships are the venue through which influence travels. – Erwin Raphael McManus

Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ultimate end and most profound result of influence is when a person is free from any command or power you may exert and yet still reflects the influence of your values and passions. – Erwin Raphael McManus

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is influence. – John C. Maxwell

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Ken Blanchard

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others. – Henry Ward Beecher

It’s better to make a difference than to make a point. – Andy Stanley

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car. – Brennan Manning

Surround yourself with people better than you. A leader aspires truly be the dumbest person in the room. – Jim Collins

God will never ask you to become the wrong kind of person in order to do the right kind of things. – John Ortberg

Be secretly incredible... Secretly incredible people keep what they do one of God’s best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know, the God of the universe, already knows. ...It’s not about being secretive or mysterious or exclusive. It’s about doing capers without any capes. – Bob Goff

The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. – Annie Dillard

Quit waiting for a plan; just go love everybody. – Bob Goff

Never make a point at the expense of making a difference. – Andy Stanley

Our story is what we have to offer the world. So much more important than being heard is having something to say. – Erwin Raphael McManus, The Artisan Soul

Success is about you. Significance is about others. – John C. Maxwell

People are attracted to the gifts that make you strong, but they are positively affected by the hurts that make you human. – Mike Foster

Only the experience of our own darkness gives us the light we need to be of help to others whose journey into the dark spots of life is only just beginning. – Joan Chittister, Between the Dark and the Daylight

You want to change the world around you? Stop demanding what you are owed, and start giving others what they need. – Mike Foster

I've always believed that good leaders rarely think in terms of limitations; instead, they think in terms of opportunities. Take hold of the opportunities in front of you. – John C. Maxwell

When you ask for my skills, you get my strengths. When you ask for my passion, you get my heart. When you ask for my ideas, you get my mind. But when you ask me for answers, you get my strengths, heart, and mind. – Mark Cole

You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it... Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

A lack of intentional living in the presence of God due, in part, to a profound split in our minds and lives between the sacred and secular has caused us to live as secular people while trying to maintain that we believe in the sacredness of all life. We cannot merely affirm belief in God as a rational proposition; we must also practice belief in God in our everyday lives in the big as well as small things. – Mary Jo Sharp

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