Quotes about Control

You cannot choose the era, nationality, family, and body into which you are born. But to act well in your given role—this is your sphere of power.

If you make peace with all things that are beyond your power, refusing to fight them, you will be invincible.

You do not seem to realize that the mind is subject only to itself. It alone can control it, which shows the force and justice of God's edict: the strong shall always prevail over the weak.

If you wish to have peace and contentment, release your attachment to all things outside your control. This is the path of freedom and happiness. If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

Beware of the man who wants to protect you; he will protect you from everything but himself

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.