Quotes about Control
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
— Jimmy Carter
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
— Marcus Aurelius
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
— John Donne
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
— James Allen
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
— Bruce Lee
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
— John Calvin
Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate.
— John Milton
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymore
— Bob Goff
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
— Philip Yancey
When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.
— Philip Yancey