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Quotes About Control

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
~ Aamir Khan
To disarm the people... was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.
~ George Mason
Strength is but one aspect of power.
~ Zhuge Liang
You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.
~ Romana Kryzanowska
You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.
~ Tony Dungy
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~ James M. Barrie
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
~ John Paul Jones
Even the most powerful human being has a limited sphere of strength. Draw him outside of that sphere and into your own, and his strength will dissipate.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.
~ Robert Ringer
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
~ Marie Lu, Legend
How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation
~ Judith Orloff
Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.
~ Dan B. Allender
Humility is not weakness, but strength under control
~ A. R. Bernard
Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.
~ Lao Tzu
There is only one right in the world and that right is one's own strength.
~ Adolf Hitler
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
~ Thomas More
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
~ Thomas More
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
~ Friedrich Ratzel
The measure of a man's estimate of your strength is the kind of weapons he feels that he must use in order to hold you fast in a prescribed place.
~ Howard Thurman
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
~ Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw