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Quotes About Control

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."
~ Hugh Howey
We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.
~ Félix J. Palma
If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
~ Stephen Covey
We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.
~ Elizabeth George
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
~ George Orwell
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
~ Al-Masudi
My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.
~ Vinnie Jones
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?
~ Mike Quade
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.
~ Euripides
In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
~ Milton Friedman
My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
~ Sam Donaldson
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
~ Keith Henson
But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.
~ Marisa Silver
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.
~ Bipasha Basu
Excess of everything is worst
~ even if it is best otherwise.
Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
~ Mark Twain
Don?t make decisions in anger or humiliate an enemy after defeating him.
~ Saddam Hussein
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
~ Winston Churchill