Quotes About Control

Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.?

Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

An action comitted in anger is an action doomed to failure.

To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Creativity requires faith. Faith requires that we relinquish control.

Faith puts the power of the universe at your disposal.

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.

My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. Its learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Happiness is inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.

You hold the key that will make you happy and have peace in your life. Never hand anyone that key at anytime in your life.

No one is in charge of your happiness except yourself.