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Quotes About Control

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
~ Dalai Lama
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time
~ Leo Tolstoy
I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.
~ Elon Musk
I am the captain of my soul.
~ Nelson Mandela
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
~ Gore Vidal
Temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it.
~ Jack Nicklaus
Keep your hand on the helm.
~ Matt Goldman
Only the suppressed word is dangerous.
~ Ludwig Borne
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
~ Richard Branson
The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
~ Alain-René Lesage
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
~ Alvin Toffler
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
~ Budd Schulberg
Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
~ Mark McCormack
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
~ Paulo Coelho
You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
~ Ellen Glasgow
Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
~ Dalai Lama
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
~ Daniel Webster
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
~ David Beckham
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
~ John Ruskin
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
~ Leo Buscaglia
It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
~ Michel de Montaigne