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Quotes About Control

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
~ George Harrison
Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.
~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
~ Danny Silk
If I had rubies, riches, and crowns, I'd buy the whole world and change things around.
~ Bob Dylan
We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
~ Lester Levenson
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
~ Hannah Arendt
The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
~ Martin Amis
Before all else, be armed.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
~ Tacitus
Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
~ Beth Moore
To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
~ Diane Dreher
It is useless to attack men who could not be controlled even if conquered, while failure would leave us in an even worse position.
~ Thucydides
The voice in your head is like a wild horse taking you wherever it wants to go...When the voice in your head finally stops talking, you experience inner peace.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
~ Jack Kornfield
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.
~ Faith Popcorn
If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.
~ Dan Millman
By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.
~ Humphry Davy
Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.
~ Joyce Meyer
In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.
~ Ludwig von Mises