Quotes About Control

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Moderation in all things.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.

Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.

Wisdom, health, life and love cannot be found in trying to control the wind, but rather in harnessing the wind in the sails of receptive engagement of the present moment.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

All people are enslaved by something.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert. He has learnt the secret of restraint, he has controlled himself. He goes through the streets of a big city with all its traffic, and his mind is as calm as if he were in a cave, where not a sound could reach him; and he is intensely working all the time. That is the ideal of Karma-Yoga

Most of us make our minds like spoilt children, allowing them to do whatever they want. Therefore it is necessary that Kriya-yoga should be constantly practised, in order to gain control of the mind, and bring it into subjection. The obstructions to Yoga arise from lack of control, and cause us pain. They can only be removed by denying the mind, and holding it in check, through the means of Kriya-yoga.