In the pursuit of success, people often resort to tactics such as manipulation and deceitful behavior, which can be counterproductive.
Many individuals have made a living by manipulating others. Some people use it to influence their peers to achieve the desired result positively. Other’s use it to control negatively with the intent of achieving personal gain. The most common manipulations are undermining trust, taking advantage of others for personal gains, and social engineering.
To manipulate you, they would need to spend time studying you to gain access to your vulnerabilities. Manipulation can also occur from an individual who lacks trustworthiness and relies on deceitful tactics for their goals to be met, like the con-man mentioned in this section.
Here are the most inspirational and wise quotes to give you the courage and help you keep toxic people away.
45 Inspirational Manipulation Quotes You Must Read Now
1. “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” ~ S.E. Hinton
2. “Manipulation aims to modify another person’s choices by directly, but clandestinely modifying a person’s psychology.” ~ Michael Cholbi
3. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
4. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
5. “Are you trying to manipulate me? It’s working.” ~ Bridget Moynahan
6. “There are three types of lies — lies, damn lies, and statistics.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
7. “No one believes a liar. Even when she’s telling the truth.” ~ Sara Shepard
8. “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” ~ Greek Proverb
9. “One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.” ~ Sylvia Plath
10. “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” ~ Frank Herbert
11. “When you know what a man wants, you know who he is, and how to move him.” ~ George R.R. Martin
12. “If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.” ~ Pele
13. “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” ~ Philip K. Dick
14. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those We manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country…We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of.” ~ Edward Bernays
15. “Whoever controls the money controls you.” ~ Sharon Law Tucker
16. “When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
17. “All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.” ~ Colm Toibin
18. “It’s amazing how much manipulation is going on in parasites.” ~ Jacob Koella
19. “One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.” ~ Paulo Freire
20. “When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” ~ Michael Ende
21. “One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
22. “If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.” ~ David Icke
23. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” ~ Dorothy Allison
24. “Manipulation is moving someone’s settings away from the ideal in ways that are typically not in her self-interest, or likely not in her self-interest in the present context.” ~ Robert Noggle
25. “Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.” ~ Neil LaBute
26. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” ~ Roseanne Barr
27. “Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
28. “Manipulating people is what’s so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone’s eyes and lie – and it’s perfectly acceptable.” ~ Cheryl Hines
29. “You can’t manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.” ~ Trish Mercer
30. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
31. “Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.” ~ Ian Wilmut
32. “Manipulation can give you anything in life you want, if you can afford it.” ~ M.F. Moonzajer
33. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ~ Jim Morrison
34. “As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.” ~ Edwin Lefevre
35. “If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.” ~ Pele
36. “The art of pleasing is the art of deception.” ~ Luc De Clapiers
37. “One man with a gun can control 100 without one.Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
38. “Her childhood, then her adolescence, had taught her patience, hope, silence, and the easy manipulation of the weapons and virtues of all prisoners.” ~ Colette
39. “The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.” ~ John Smith
40. “Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.” ~ Raymond Aron
41. “It’s so easy to manipulate an audience, but it’s nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.” ~ John Boorman
42. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~ Alice Walker
43. “When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.” ~ George R.R. Martin
44. “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard
45. “Men are used as they use others.” ~ Bidpai
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