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Quotes About Control

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.
~ Joyce Meyer
Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.
~ Wayne Muller
Fear overrides all rational thinking
~ Unknown
When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.
~ Anne Lamott
Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with the fear.
~ Shirin Ebadi
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
~ Seneca the Younger
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.
~ Robert Jordan
Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.
~ Dean Frazer
Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
~ Sarah Vowell
Fear is trusting in your own power.
~ Marianne Williamson
Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.
~ Neal Boortz
What an incredible drug fear is.
~ Anne Lamott
Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.
~ Anne Rice
Fear is stronger than arms.
~ Aeschylus
He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
~ Francis Bacon
If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.
~ David Foster Wallace
The important thing is fear should not control your actions. It should not dictate what you do.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Anger is fear in disguise.
~ Rajneesh
You're afraid of your own anger.
~ Kristin Cashore, Graceling
Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
~ Mary Balogh
Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.
~ Robert Lacey
I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.
~ Stephenie Meyer