Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Agency Quotes

Action Agency Decision Possibility Proactivity The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright and critic

Action Agency Decision Fear Reason No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Agency Belief Control Imagination Power Dynamics All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher

Agency Choice Control Experience Responsibility We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Alan Watts

Writer and speaker

Agency Influence Power Dynamics Relationship Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Groucho Marx

American comedian and actor

Agency Choice Fate Kindness Luck It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Arthur Schopenhauer

German Philosopher