Control Quotes

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Steve Maraboli

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles M. Schwab

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.

W. Clement Stone

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions...

W. Clement Stone

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Gloria Steinem

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

Ramana Maharshi

But love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through whichonly a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, then love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible; it doesn't even matter whether we can keep the loved one at our side. To love is to lose control.

Paulo Coelho

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water. He found that captive white-footed mice spent inordinate time and energy just resisting experimental manipulation. If the experimenters turned the lights up, the mouse spent his time turning them down. If the experimenter turned the lights down, the mouse turned them up. The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Martin E. P. Seligman

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Edward Gibbon

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

Jamie Paolinetti

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king

John Milton

Under our form of government, the source of authority is supposed to be We the people. Not the slaves of a King. Our elected leaders are supposed to be public servants and not private masters.

James Dye

A really good detective never gets married.

Raymond Chandler

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Pat Riley