Quotes About Influence

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

You have all the influence you choose to have.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

Today, I don't believe in destiny. But I do believe in history...There's nothing more powerful than history.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

Actions are destiny's pen.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.

The destiny of every country is in the hands of the people who know God.

The destiny of your nation is in your hands, waiting for your actions.

The destiny of any country is in the hands of her church.

We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.