Quotes About Control

I believe the only thing that we really have control over is our attitude. If we focus on the positive things in our lives and learn how to cope with all the surprises, we will be happier people.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

I no longer need my power tie, because I always have, my power finger.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Most human behavior is controlled by images. Image is a factor in how people look at themselves and what they use to reflect themselves. The control of images is a major factor in world power.

Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

The only thing we have power over in the universe is our own thoughts.

There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.