Quotes about Control
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
— RC Sproul
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The new and terrible dangers which man has created can only be controlled by man.
— John F. Kennedy
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man.
— Marcus Aurelius
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For man plans, but God arranges.
— Thomas a Kempis
No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled.
— Thomas a Kempis
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
— Edmund Burke
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
— Euripides
Man is man, and master of his fate.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
— Ben Stein