Quotes About Control

Her long legs struck forcefully forward as if she pressed her toes watchfully on the accelerator of the universe.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

If you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently."—ZIG ZIGLAR

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.

Martin Luther once said, "We can't keep a bird from flying over our heads, but we can keep it from building a nest in our hair!

Message! With God's help you can change and take control of your life. You plus God equals enough.

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

Life was created for you and not the contrary. Remove it from your heart and put it in your hand to master your destiny.

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

Charlie wanted to swear. ****, he thought, remembering how his father had told him that one reason you shouldn't swear is because then when you really need a strong word to express a strong feeling you would have none strong enough left.

I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.

Well, parental control is somewhat illusory, right?

It's all in His hands!!

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Anger always has a reason but there are no good reasons to be angry.

By nature, men are uncontrollable and wild, and it should be, but women have the key to control them, if they know how to use it.

My happiness depends on me.