Quotes About Control

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

I'm more and more in control of my own vibration.

You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom -- the law within your body.

High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

As you gain control of the mind, you gain control of life and you gain control of your time. It all works together.

This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.