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Quotes About Influence

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.
~ George Clinton
Control your fate or somebody else will
~ Heinrich von Pierer
How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
~ Etty Hillesum
Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.
~ Bill Johnson
We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.
~ John Hagelin
There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.
~ Giacomo Casanova
All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.
~ Aldous Huxley
We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.
~ Brad Pitt
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
~ Andre Malraux
Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.
~ Mark Batterson
Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.
~ John Henrik Clarke
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
~ Marcel Marceau
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
~ Alija Izetbegovic
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
~ Frederick Douglass
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
~ Sun Ra
Anyone who interferes with the destiny of another thing never will discover his own.
~ Paulo Coelho
I like Destiny's Child.
~ Bonnie Wright
Find friends who ALIGN with your destiny & lose friends who ALIENATE you from destiny!
~ Brian Houston
As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
~ Frederick Douglass
A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.
~ John C. Maxwell