Quotes About Control

The key to sticking with any diet is learning how to control hunger and manage cravings.

It made me feel as if I was taking back some control over my life when everything else had been shaken up so frighteningly.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!

Tonight in your dreams you must look at your hands.

Your dreams aren't made, or broken, by anyone but you.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

We control the content of our dreams.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.

When he comes for her, it's only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That's when she listens.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.