Quotes about Agency
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
- Barack Obama
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman. It has always been up to us.
- Barack Obama
We're responsible for our own lives.
- Stephen Covey
First, take responsibility for your life; and second, take initiative. It's that simple. Be an agent, not a victim. Don't wait for life to happen to you; happen to it. Be the driver of your life, not just a passenger. Live out of your imagination, not your past.
- Stephen Covey
We were put here on earth to act as agents of the Infinite, to bring into existence that which is not yet, but which will be, through us.
- Steven Pressfield
You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.
- Billy Graham
Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.
- Billy Graham
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
- Henry B. Eyring
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
- Stephen Covey
A man is the origin of his action.
- Aristotle
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus