Quotes About Control

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control, almost like God creating something.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor, goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch, is no ethical leader for me.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen.

None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself.

My mother used to say, "He who angers you conquers you."

Nothing in excess.

I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host.