Best Agency Quotes On Successful Business In Life

These agency quotes will inspire you. Agency is a business or organization established to provide a particular service, typically one that involves organizing transactions between two other parties or action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging agency quotes, agency sayings, and agency proverbs.

Famous Agency Quotes

1. “You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.” ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
2. “Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.” ~ D. Todd Christofferson
3. “Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.” ~ M. Russell Ballard

4. “Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.” ~ Robert D. Hales

5. “As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man’s free agency is a God-given gift.” ~ David O. McKay
6. “War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.” ~ William McKinley
7. “Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan’s plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others…. I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.” ~ James E. Faust

8. “Agency presupposes choice.” ~ Jerome Bruner

9. “The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its ‘product’ cannot be turned out on an assembly line.” ~ Leo Burnett , Advertising agency quotes
10. “I’ve never heard an agency say, ‘Unless you industrialize I will not support you.'” ~ Yoweri Museveni
11. “I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.” ~ Denzel Washington

12. “Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label ‘inspiration’.” ~ Norman Lindsay

13. “The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.” ~ Fred Allen
14. “Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.” ~ Maria Menounos
15. “Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.” ~ James Madison

16. “Just as there’s garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.” ~ Pat Buchanan

17. “If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don’t let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else’s advertising.” ~ David Ogilvy
18. “My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that’s my job.” ~ Arthur Blank
19. “I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.” ~ George Steinbrenner

20. “Anyone who’s parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That’s just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just a bit of a sham.” ~ John Lydon

21. “The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.” ~ David Ogilvy
22. “To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It’s great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don’t believe that.” ~ Jerry West
23. “I’ve got to play free agency out, and I’ve got to look at all of my options.” ~ Jason Kidd

24. “Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~ Raymond Chandler

25. “An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.” ~ Fred Allen
26. “Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
27. “Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God’s will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God’s will.” ~ Chuck Smith

28. “It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.” ~ Noam Chomsky

29. “The StarTalks – while kids can watch them, they’re actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we’re going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
30. “I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it’s gratifying to the reader when you give young characters that kind of agency.” ~ Robert Paul Weston
31. “Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn’t seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].” ~ Jill Stein

32. “I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.” ~ Jill Stein

33. “For me, the overarching issue here is that we need regulatory agencies that are standing up for us, that do not have a revolving door between, you know, Monsanto, and then suddenly Monsanto lobbyists are in charge of, you know, telling us whether GMOs are, you know, good for our food or not.” ~ Jill Stein
34. “It won’t ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It’s going to happen sooner or later. The Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front – sooner or later there’s going to be someone getting hurt. And we have to accept that fact. It’s going to happen. It’s not going to hurt our movement. Our movement will go on. And it’s important that we not let the bully pulpit of the FBI and the other oppression agencies stop us from what we’re doing. They are the violent ones. They are the terrorists … we have to keep doing what we’re doing.” ~ Jerry Vlasak
35. “The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation… The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover

36. “The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.” ~ Chris Chocola

37. “There are legions of [Aquarian, New Age, One World Religion] conspirators. They are in corporations, universities, and hospitals, on the faculties of public schools, in factories and doctors offices, in state and federal agencies, on city councils, and the White House staff, in state legislatures, in volunteer organizations, in virtually all arenas of policy making in the country.” ~ Marilyn Ferguson
38. “This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts.  The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.” ~ Os Guinness
39. “When you say to yourself, ‘I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,’ you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work ‘fixing up’ things good or bad in advance.” ~ Prentice Mulford

40. “Being broke is a very efficient educational agency.” ~ Edwin Lefevre

41. “It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining ‘myth’ that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to see our universe and life as creative, without a directing agency. Meaning emerges with life. If this view becomes widespread, it has the promise to become the sustaining myth we need to sustain in turn an emerging global civilization.” ~ Stuart Kauffman
42. “Jesus Christ didnt commit the gospel to an advertising agency; He commissioned disciples. And He didnt command them to put up signs and pass out tracts; He said that they would be His witnesses.” ~ Joseph Bayly
43. “We should stop the non-scientific, pseudo-scientific, and anti-scientific nonsense emanating from the right wing, and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now. We must not let the [Bush] Administration distort science and rewrite and manipulate scientific reports in other areas. We must not let it turn the Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Pollution Agency.” ~ Edward Kennedy

44. “Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.” ~ Allen W. Wood

45. “The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.” ~ Carly Fiorina
46. “The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.” ~ Carly Fiorina
47. “Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.” ~ Henry Giroux

48. “The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it’s less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can’t escape the distribution of power in the world.” ~ Noam Chomsky

49. “All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do not count – your agency is worthless, your experiences are worthless, and your voice should remain silent – but they are also told that there is no alternative to current state of affairs.” ~ Henry Giroux
50. “I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can’t get high off this stuff! I’m not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It’s me saying, “I just want to live.” And their response seems to be, “We agree that it’s a matter of life and death; that’s why we’re declining it.” Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.” ~ Jenny Lawson
51. “I agree that we have to have the toughest screening and vetting that we can have, but I don`t think a halt is necessary. What we have to do is put all of our resources through the Department of Homeland Security, through the State Department, through our intelligence agencies, and we have to have an increased vetting and screening .” ~ Lawrence O’Donnell

52. “The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don’t really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood” ~ David Ogilvy

53. “If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the “poor”; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or “fast-track”; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.” ~ Ron Paul
54. “I have noticed that agencies which are full of fun and ferment seem to create the best advertising. If you are not happy in advertising, for goodness sake find a job in which you would be happy. For as far as I know, we pass this way only once” ~ David Ogilvy
55. “The general advertisers and their agencies know almost nothing for sure, because they cannot measure the results of their advertising. They worship at the altar of creativity, which really means ‘originality’: The most dangerous word in the lexicon of advertising” ~ David Ogilvy

56. “Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.” ~ Helen Keller

57. “We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs. We must shrink the federal government and hold it accountable – and to do that, we need a leader who understands how bureaucracies work and how to cut them down to size.” ~ Carly Fiorina
58. “The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they’ll release the software anyways, and the patch later on. Stuff like this needs to stop. There needs to be some kind of agency that verifies code before it’s released, maybe a grading system for code.” ~ Michael Demon Calce
59. “Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world … When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.” ~ Edward Wilmot Blyden

60. “Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.” ~ Roger Wicker

61. “The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos; the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services. That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500 independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex system.” ~ Rem Koolhaas
62. “I also watched where he [Ted Cruz] did a forum that looked like it came right out of a government agency, and it said on top, “Voter Violation,” and then it graded you and it scared the hell out of people, and it said the only way you clear up the violation, essentially, is to go and vote for Ted Cruz. I watched that fraudulent document, and I said it’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen in politics.” ~ Donald Trump

63. “No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.” ~ Paul Davies

64. “Another agency – the IRS – did not do as well under Republicans who control Congress. The IRS is largely flatlined in their spending, but they did get about 300 million more funding. But I can only be used to help people pay their taxes and answer questions. It can’t be used for any other purpose.” ~ Susan Davis
65. “Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn’t too well-informed about what is going on in the Vichy government.” ~ Robert O. Paxton

Agency is the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power: operation.

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