Quotes About Control

I am the State.

Put not your trust in princes.

No man is demolished but by himself.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Security is a kind of death.

You must have discipline to have fun.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."

The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.