Quotes About Control

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.

When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

I don't like rules, especially the unwritten ones that say I need to let myself be controlled by my man.

Independence is to have full control of your life to be able to make your own choices and design your destiny.

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

I'm a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I'm off the planet, there's always a second chance.