Quotes about Control
I say 'Out' to every negative thought that comes to my mind. No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.
— Louise Hay
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
— Edmund Burke
For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .
— Aristotle
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Habit is necessary to give power.
— William Hazlitt
I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.
— Billy Graham
Power is the ability to achieve purpose.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power always brings with it responsibility.
— Theodore Roosevelt
To do nothing is in everyone's power.
— Samuel Johnson
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
— Marcus Aurelius
Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
— Margaret Atwood