Quotes About Control

You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.

Modernization did not demote the elderly. It demoted the family. It gave people—the young and the old—a way of life with more liberty and control, including the liberty to be less beholden to other generations. The veneration of elders may be gone, but not because it has been replaced by veneration of youth. It's been replaced by veneration of the independent self. *   *   *

You don't have a choice. My sisters will kill you if you don't obey me." "Then why are you protecting me?

CORY: You ain't never gave me nothing! You ain't never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. I used to tremble every time you called my name. Every time I heard your footsteps in the house. Wondering all the time...what's Papa gonna say if I do this?...What's he gonna say if I do that?...What's Papa gonna say if I turn on the radio? And Mama, too...she tries...but she's scared of you.

Ser ousado não é ter falta de medo, mas gerenciá-lo.

Alguien puede rasgarte la piel sin que tú lo permitas, pero nadie podrá nunca invadir tu mente sin tu permiso.

Los pensamientos siempre traen deseos impulsivos.

Quien no tiene miedo es irresponsable. El valor no es la ausencia del miedo. Es su control.

Tudo aquilo em que acreditamos nos controla. Se você crê que sua vida tem valor e que é uma pessoa capaz e inteligente, então sua crença expande sua qualidade de vida.

No pocos dictadores tienen tanto aprecio por las palabras como por las armas

Ninguém pode fazer tanto mal a você quanto você mesmo.

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

the battle for structure.

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Anxiety and self-doubt can bring you down, but don't quit. Keep your motivation strong and take back control of your life.

Bring back your smile, take control of your life and conquer new horizons.

The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry.

I am trying to keep it all together -- not lashing out in anger, not bursting into tears, because what is anger, but pain masquerading as bravado?

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

Power can be invisible, it can be fantastic, it can be dull and routine. It can be obvious, it can reach you by the baton of the police, it can speak the language of your thoughts and desires. It can feel like remote control, it can exhilarate like liberation, it can travel through time, and it can drown you in the present.

Ne cepure ce? v?ru, bet galva.