Quotes About Control

Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.

The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you've always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you.

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.

Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.

He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

I want to encourage you to place yourself totally into God's hands and allow Him to be the Manager of your life.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.