Quotes About Control

It does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them, and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one's acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from coming into being; it does not tyrannize, it hinders. Alexis de Tocqueville

Thoughts are giant-powers. They are more powerful than electricity. They control your life, mould your character, and shape your destiny.

Man is not a creature of circumstances. His thoughts are the architects of his circumstances.

Mind, Prana and Veerya are one. By controlling the mind, you can control Prana and semen. By controlling Prana you can control the mind and semen. By controlling semen, you can control the mind and Prana.

Only when there is no privacy can there be total control

Her body lies in the bed like an inanimate object, an emptied bellow or shopping bag. Nothing has changed with her departure from the camp. Her body is still in their power, even more so now. Only now does S. understand that a woman's body never really belongs to the woman. It belongs to others—to the man, the children, the family. And in wartime to soldiers.

When the Holy Ghost has full control, Christ is never divided, His body is not divided, there is no division. Schism and division are the products of the carnal mind.

Will you let Him have your will; will you let Him have you? If you will, all His power is at your disposal.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny

The mind is the pilot of the soul.

If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression.

Dans le Genèse Dieu a dit à Caïn: "Le pêché est à ta porte, comme une bête tapie qui te convoite et que tu dois dompter.

Rule a kingdom as if cooking a small fish," he once told me. "If you interfere with it too much while cooking, it will fall apart and be inedible.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Soon after he purchased me, Epps asked me if I could write and read, and on being informed that I had received some instruction in those branches of education, he assured me, with emphasis, if he ever caught me with a book, or with pen and ink, he would give me a hundred lashes.

surrender is giving up control bt nt lossing power

Another spiritual suggestion for remaining calm is to refrain from trying to control everyone around you. The more controlling you are, the more you'll get lost in ego land and removed from your spirit.

go to bed early, secure in the knowledge that God is in control, not you.

I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.

You [I] have control over three things – what you [I] think what you [I] say, and how you [I] behave. To make a change in your [my] life, you [I] must recognize that these gifts are the most powerful tools you [I] possess in shaping the form of your [my] life.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

A tethered thing is a dead thing...

Brando said he'd noticed that powerful people spoke quietly, and Don Corleone's quiet calm and nearly inaudible speaking voice are key to the character. When Corleone speaks, you have to be quiet to hear him. What can we learn from Don Corleone (that doesn't involve killing people)? That quiet does have its own power, if we harness it.