Quotes About Control

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Each man is his own absolute lawgiver and dispenser of glory or gloom to himself, the maker of his life, his reward, his punishment.

A physician can sometimes bury the scythe of death, but he has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a director, in the sense that you are the master of all the moving parts. You create the world in every detail.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.