Control Quotes

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

George Orwell

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Plato

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Philip Massinger

You can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility for delegating a task to someone else. If you picked the right man, fine, but if you picked the wrong man, the responsibility is yours -- not his.

Richard E Krafve

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Thomas Alva Edison

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

James Baldwin

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Confucius

At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.

Soren Kierkegaard

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Quentin Crisp

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Quentin Crisp

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare

Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy.

J. Swartz

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

Virginia Woolf

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

Georges Braque

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Anthony Robbins

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Anthony Robbins

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Adlai Stevenson