Quotes about Agency
If there's one thing I've learned over the years, it's that you've got no say in what other people do with their lives. Everyone makes their own choices, good or bad.
— Francine Rivers
Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan.
— John Calvin
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.
— Glenn Beck
The day after a new business presentation, send the prospect a three-page letter summarizing the reasons why he should pick your agency. This will help him make the right decision. If
— David Ogilvy
Do you think it childish to use a set of written principles to guide the management of an advertising agency? I can only tell you that mine have proved invaluable in keeping a complicated enterprise on course. Profit
— David Ogilvy
The day after a new business presentation, send the prospect a three-page letter summarizing the reasons why he should pick your agency. This will help him make the right decision.
— David Ogilvy
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
— Benjamin Disraeli
We were not designed to be dominated.
— Myles Munroe
The political agency of YHWH comes, in Israelite tradition, to be a stable, orderly cultic presence, but without surrendering any of the force of agency known in the exodus narrative itself. Thus "glory" becomes a cover term that holds together forceful agency and abiding presence
— Walter Brueggemann
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
— CS Lewis
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.