Quotes About Control

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom…it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Your life is in your hands, make of it what you choose.

I just inherited her sense of resilience and hopefulness and enthusiasm for life – that's no matter what happened to you, you couldn't maybe control that, but what you could try to control was how you responded to it.

Anything you can't control is teaching you how to let go.

"Making movies is like herding cats."

Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of re-activeness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

Control your anger. If you have anger towards others, they control you.

Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is turned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.